I have seen a lot of point prediction threads recently, so I hope this isn't a carbon copy of something. I will post a basic list of predictions I had made. THE FANS(you guys) will post any changes that you want made to the predictions. When all of the predictions are done, we will have the Official Fans Projections and Predictions.
Let's try it out.
Alexander Ovechkin 113 points WSH-118 points
Evgeni Malkin 113 points PIT
Sidney Crosby 111 points PIT
Ryan Getzlaf 99 points ANA-100 points
Joe Thornton 99 points SJS
Nicklas Backstrom 96 points WSH
Pavel Datsyuk 96 points DET
Ilya Kovalchuk 96 points ATL
Dany Heatley 85 points SJS -95 points
Jarome Iginla 87 points CGY-90 points
Vincent Lecavalier 85 points TBL-90 points
Daniel Sedin 83 points VAN-90 points
Henrik Sedin 82 points VAN-90 points
Martin St.Louis 81 points TBL-90 points
Henrik Zetterberg 83 points DET-90 points
Marc Savard 88 points BOS
Rick Nash 87 points CBJ
Jason Spezza 86 points OTT
Zach Parise 85 points NJD-91 points-85 points
Eric Staal 85 points CAR
Patrick Kane 84 points CHI
Jonathan Toews 84 points CHI
Corey Perry 83 points ANA
Daniel Alfredsson 81 points OTT
Marian Gaborik 81 points NYR
Ales Hemsky 73 points EDM-80 points
Mike Riberio 80 points DAL
Alexander Semin 78 points WSH-80 points
Jeff Carter 79 points PHI
Mike Richards 79 points PHI
Anze Kopitar 77 points LAK-79 points
Olli Jokinen 76 points CGY
Derek Roy 76 points BUF
Mikko Koivu 75 points MIN
Devin Setoguchi 68 points SJS-75 points
Thomas Vanek 75 points BUF
Mike Green 74 points WSH
Paul Stastny 74 points COL
Brad Boyes 73 points STL
Jason Pominville 73 points BUF
Bobby Ryan 73 points ANA
Shane Doan 72 points PHX
Martin Havlat 71 points MIN
Brad Richards 71 points DAL
Patrik Elias 70 points NJD
Scott Gomez 70 points MTL
Ray Whitney 65 points CAR-70 points
Simon Gagne 69 points PHI
Brendan Morrow 69 points DAL
Daniel Briere 68 points PHI
Alexander Frolov 68 points LAK
Patrick Marleau 68 points SJS
Jason Arnott 67 points NSH
Alexei Kovalev 67 points OTT
Bryan Little 67 points ATL
Andy McDonald 67 points STL
J-P Dumont 66 points NSH
Paul Kariya 66 points STL
Stephen Weiss 66 points FLA
Tim Connolly 65 points BUF
Johan Franzen 65 points DET
Andrei Markov 65 points MTL
Tuomo Ruutu 52 points CAR-65 points
Loui Eriksson 64 points DAL
Brian Gionta 64 points MTL
Slava Kozlov 64 points ATL
Steven Stamkos 64 points TBL
Kris Versteeg 50 points CHI-64 points
Nik Antropov 63 points ATL
David Booth 63 points FLA
Joe Pavelski 63 points SJS
P-M Bouchard 62 points MIN
Dustin Brown 62 points LAK
Sam Gagner 62 points EDM
Travis Zajac 62 points NJD
Derick Brassard 61 points CBJ
Chris Drury 61 points NYR
Claude Giroux 61 points PHI
Nathan Horton 61 points FLA
David Perron 61 points STL
Mike Cammalleri 72 points MTL-60 points
Erik Cole 48 points CAR-60 points
Marian Hossa 75 points CHI-60 points
Ryan Kesler 60 points VAN
Daymond Langkow 60 points CGY
Teemu Selanne 60 points ANA
Alex Tanguay 60 points TBL
Jason Blake 59 points TOR
Sergei Gonchar 59 points PIT
Milan Hejduk 59 points COL
Shawn Horcoff 59 points EDM
Jamie Langenbrunner 59 points NJD
Milan Michalek 59 points OTT
Scott Niedermayer 59 points ANA
Ryan Smyth 59 points LAK
Patrice Bergeron 58 points BOS
Dave Bolland 58 points CHI
Dan Boyle 58 points SJS
Michael Frolik 58 points FLA
Nicklas Lidstrom 58 points DET
Peter Mueller 58 points PHX
Dion Phaneuf 58 points CGY
Michael Ryder 58 points BOS
Kristian Huselius 57 points CBJ
Phil Kessel 57 points BOS
Chris Kunitz 57 points PIT
Matthew Lombardi 57 points PHX
Alexei Ponikarovsky 57 points TOR
Brian Rafalski 57 points DET
Steve Sullivan 57 points NSH
Shea Weber 57 points NSH
Todd White 57 points ATL
Martin Erat 56 points NSH
Mikhail Grabovski 56 points TOR
Jordan Staal 56 points PIT
Mark Streit 56 points NYI
Nikolai Zherdev 56 points UFA
Saku Koivu 55 points ANA
David Krejci 55 points BOS
Kyle Okposo 55 points NYI
Patrick Sharp 55 points CHI
John Tavares 55 points NYI
David Backes 54 points STL
Scott Hartnell 54 points PHI
Andrei Kostitsyn 53 points MTL
Milan Lucic 53 points BOS
Patrick O'Sullivan 53 points EDM
Matt Stajan 53 points TOR
Cory Stillman 53 points FLA
Jakub Voracek 53 points CBJ
Valterri Filppula 52 points DET
Tomas Plekanec 52 points MTL
Sheldon Souray 52 points EDM
Wojtek Wolski 52 points COL
Andrew Brunette 51 points MIN
Brian Campbell 51 points CHI
Brandon Dubinsky 51 points NYR
Tomas Kaberle 51 points TOR
Niklas Kronwall 51 points DET
Brooks Laich 51 points WSH
Joffrey Lupul 51 points ANA
T.J. Oshie 51 points STL
Drew Stafford 51 points BUF
Justin Williams 51 points LAK
Patrik Berglund 50 points STL
Rod Brind'Amour 45 points CAR-50 points
Zdeno Chara 50 points BOS Jonathan Cheechoo-50 points OTT
Ryane Clowe 50 points SJS Matt Cullen-50 points CAR
Tomas Fleischmann 50 points WSH Bill Guerin-50 points PIT
Antoine Vermette 50 points CBJ
Jay Bouwmeester 49 points CGY
David Legwand 49 points NSH
Ryan Malone 49 points TBL
Chris Pronger 49 points PHI
R.J. Umberger 49 points CBJ
Pavol Demitra 48 points VAN
Steve Reinprecht 48 points FLA
Alexandre Burrows 47 points VAN
Ryan Callahan 47 points NYR
Brian Rolston 47 points NJD
Ryan Whitney 47 points ANA
Kris Letang 46 points PIT
Vaclav Prospal 46 points NYR
Jarret Stoll 46 points LAK
Lubomir Visnovsky 46 points EDM
Doug Weight 46 points NYI
Blake Wheeler 46 points BOS Mike Knuble-45 points WSH
Josh Bailey 44 points NYI
Martin Hanzal 44 points PHX
Cody Hodgson 44 points VAN
Mark Recchi 44 points BOS
Lee Stempniak 44 points TOR
Tom Gilbert 43 points EDM
David Moss 43 points CGY
Zach Bogosian 41 points ATL
Andrew Ebbett 40 points ANA
Jochen Hecht 40 points BUF
James Sheppard 39 points MIN
Petr Sykora 36 points UFA/MIN
Ville Leino 35 points DET
Jiri Tlusty 33 points TOR
Nikita Filatov 32 points CBJ
Mats Sundin 25 points UFA
Evander Kane 17 points ATL
Jiri Hudler 14 points DET
Maxim Afinogenov 13 points UFA
Note: Despite a few changes, some things are not up to date. (Hudler, Zherdev) Post these as a change.
Bold means a change has been made. The original prediction and the updated one will show, the latter in bold.
Last edited by Paralyzer008: 09-20-2009 at 02:11 AM.
If anybody out there wants to change a prediction, feel free to do so. Any change will be welcome, unless it is totally unrealistic. Every player has up to three changes that can be made before it is a locked prediction.
Marian Hossa seems a little high to me given the nature of his injury and his estimated time to return to the lineup (I heard 6 weeks?). He will have missed roughly 20+ games. He may be off to a slow start and probably average a PPG, giving him roughly 60 points.
I'm predicting Hemsky will have a pretty good year, and will probably beat his career year of 77 points. I say Hemsky is good for 80 this season under Quinn who will take the leash off the young speedsters.
Van the sedins are right up there in evenstrength pts with all the big boys....but usually lack on the ppp........with Ehrhoff,Schneider added and Samuelsson,they could hit the 100 pt level...plus two (if not three)solid scoring lines for the full 82 gms rather than just the last 33gms.
Heatley would think he would hit the 100pt plateau,,,could even put getzlaf and Perry up ther as Bobby Ryan played about 60 gms due to cap restraints last year....another 20 gms for that trio.....incl in that they have a much better 2nd line now.....
Van the sedins are right up there in evenstrength pts with all the big boys....but usually lack on the ppp........with Ehrhoff,Schneider added and Samuelsson,they could hit the 100 pt level...plus two (if not three)solid scoring lines for the full 82 gms rather than just the last 33gms.
Heatley would think he would hit the 100pt plateau,,,could even put getzlaf and Perry up ther as Bobby Ryan played about 60 gms due to cap restraints last year....another 20 gms for that trio.....incl in that they have a much better 2nd line now.....
Only 3 players scored 100 points last season. The Sedins have hovered around 80 points since the lockout. Do the math.
Last edited by NorthVanCanuck: 09-17-2009 at 07:43 PM.
Van the sedins are right up there in evenstrength pts with all the big boys....but usually lack on the ppp........with Ehrhoff,Schneider added and Samuelsson,they could hit the 100 pt level...plus two (if not three)solid scoring lines for the full 82 gms rather than just the last 33gms.
Heatley would think he would hit the 100pt plateau,,,could even put getzlaf and Perry up ther as Bobby Ryan played about 60 gms due to cap restraints last year....another 20 gms for that trio.....incl in that they have a much better 2nd line now.....
disregard everything this guy says for the rest of the topic plz
Van the sedins are right up there in evenstrength pts with all the big boys....but usually lack on the ppp........with Ehrhoff,Schneider added and Samuelsson,they could hit the 100 pt level...plus two (if not three)solid scoring lines for the full 82 gms rather than just the last 33gms.
Heatley would think he would hit the 100pt plateau,,,could even put getzlaf and Perry up ther as Bobby Ryan played about 60 gms due to cap restraints last year....another 20 gms for that trio.....incl in that they have a much better 2nd line now.....
ya i would say the sedins and perry at 100 aren't likely.
Whtiney (70PTS IMO), Ruutu (65PTS) and Cole (60PTS) all seem low to me from Carolina. Not sure on Brind'Amour yet but I wouldn't be surprised to see him and Cullen break 50 either.
id put ovechkin higher theres no way backstrom can/will be that much better and ovechkin will do the same as last year plus hes got a new linemate named mike knuble tell me he aint better than kozlov, but you nailed semin, backstrom, green, laich, flieschmann they should all be a little higher but... and you forgot knuble
Have you ever heard of Jacques Lemaire and the trap?
Zach Parise will get 80-85 points MAX.
Quote:
There was very little down time. The pace was high with Lemaire and assistant Mario Tremblay often pushing the players to keep moving.
"Which is great," Parise said. "I think that's what everyone wants and I think everyone is excited about the little adjusments we're making. They're little things, minor things. We're going to be playing a little more up tempo."
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Will the Devils forecheck be as aggressive as it was under Sutter?
"Yeah," Zajac said. "We didn't change much up or haven't yet on the forecheck."
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But, those who expect the Devils to just sit back and trap the whole game -- as is Lemaire's coaching reputation, might be surprised.
"That's not going to be the case," Pandolfo said. "You can already tell by the way he wants us to play. It's not going to be sitting back, that's for sure."
Devils coach Jacques Lemaire says the days of teams with a one-goal lead in the third period sitting on that lead and protecting it until the end -- a strength of the Devils' championship teams -- is a thing of the past in the NHL.
"It's over," Lemaire said today. "It's over. That was the time of the good defensive team and that is gone. Not that the teams are not good defensively. It's the offense that is in the league, the parity that is in the league. That's why you go back on games and you see teams, they dominate for a period and then it switches to the other team and then it switches again. As soon as there's a little drop in the intensity, anything that your team is doing well, as soon as there's a little drop, the other team takes over."
Does it bother Lemaire that he has this reputation as a trapping, lock-down defensive coach?
"When it bothers me [is] when a person from the outside come to me and talks about something that he just doesn't know," he said. "That bothers me. He'll say, as an example, 'Do you think this guy or that guy would be better in an offensive system?' Then, I look at him. Poor guy. Go back to school."
I'd have to say Parise could still get 90+ in Lemaire's system, the question is WILL he. If Parise doesn't get the same opportunities that Sutter gave him, then who knows.
Sedins should have career years this year. They've got 3 line mates now that can all put the puck in the net (Burrows, Samuelsson and now Shirokov). If one stops working, you can replace him with someone else. I'm going to say 90 points a piece isn't out of the question.
I also think Iginla could get somewhere around 90.
