Guest wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2024 4:56 pm
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Guest wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2024 10:18 am
Halfway through the season.
Who is making the playoffs? This has been a fun year to watch, the mid pack fight has been great to see. Still not clear who is going to make playoffs. Redwings have a tough stretch, Sens and Nats have a lot of ground to cover, TT on a knifes edge. It will be an interesting finish.
TT is going to fall off a cliff, Nats will win more than they lose moving forward despite their D problems. RedWings only have one line so it depends on how they perform but not much depth at all to help and I suspect the Sens will surprise some teams despite not being able to score much. Overall I think all those teams lose 6 players each and some of their best players go to top teams next year.
That means kids from top teams leave to open up spots. This helps with balancing the team talent across the board.
Real hockey starts next year so even the top teams reconsider the objectives and who can help them implement them best.
The best players will still remain the best players. The "support" players on the top teams will be put to the test.
there are only about 5-7 players on those teams that are going to be effective in big boy hockey, the rest are interchangeable with any top 3 players on midpack.
The rest will get frustrated by new recruits taking their ice time, they will shuffle around to mid pack teams and go undrafted in 3 years. There will be a bunch of hidden gems that come out of no where and a bunch of has beens crying about how coach screwed them, deflecting that their kid is not actually as special as he once was.
There is SO MUCH time
its going to be a kick to the face of reality for many families that are
