Ok, time for some predictions then. Meant to do this earlier, but it's been a crazy week with work.
Atlantic
1. Tampa
2. Florida
3. Toronto
4. Boston
5. Montreal
6. Ottawa
7. Detroit
8. Buffalo
Ottawa might sneak past Montreal, and I'm not going to rule out Boston finishing ahead of Toronto
Metropolitan
1. New York Islanders
2. Washington
3. Carolina
4. Philadelphia
5a. Pittsburgh
5b. New York Rangers
7. New Jersey
8. Columbus
I think it's a coin toss between Pitt/NYR - depends now much Pitt can hold on thru the first few weeks without Sid and Gino.
Central
1. Colorado
2. Winnipeg
3. Chicago
4. Dallas
5a. Minnesota
5b. St. Louis
7. Nashville
8. Arizona
There's a lot of change in Minnesota, so I'm not entirely confident they'll make it in. I think Chicago is gonna have a pretty significant improvement.
West
1. Vegas
2. Vancouver
3. Edmonton
4. Seattle
5. Calgary
6. LA
7. San Jose
8. Anaheim
I'm going bold with the Kraken and Canuck rankings. I wouldn't be surprised if 5 teams from the Central get in.
Awards:
Hart - McJesus (Matthews, Barkov)
Art Ross - McJesus (Panarin, Point)
Rocket - Matthews (Debrincat, Rantanen)
Norris - Makar (Hedman, Jones)
Vezina - Vasilevsky (Lehner, Varlamov or Sorokin ... whoever wins the #1 job)
Adams - Colliton (Gallant, Green)
Calder - Caufield (no clue)
Selke - no clue