Opening day NHL

I know it's still early but which opening day games are you looking forward to ? Which teams have some of the easiest schedules and which teams will be most improved?

thoughts

Can't believe it's time already! VERY Hyped for NHL regular season hockey again. Hope to have a good year again. Learned a lot last year. Maybe I'll try to keep a regular season record.

Remember last year was a short season of only 56 games

. No matter how you slice its really was a unfair season to those teams that didn't make the playoffs as well as the teams that made the playoffs.  If it was really fair they would have played all the games.

You could make a case for the Stanley cup champion would have still been the same but the road to get to the playoffs and through the playoffs would have been different if they played all the games.

That being said don't expect this season to look anything like at all like last season.  What iam expecting is a lot of surprise teams this year.

I expect Seattle to be one of the surprise teams this year.  Before Seattle came into the League the city of Vancouver was the city to be the final city of a long road trip for east coast teams.

The road teams use to come into Vancouver and drink and party at the local bar and get wasted. Now the trip gets even longer you go to Seattle then to Vancouver all the way from the likes of Tampa , Miami or Carolina.

That's a long trip.  I'm expecting to see Seattle to be one of the most improved teams this year.  More than likely some teams that played mediocre last or was in the playoffs will fall off as far as winning goes. The odds on Seattle actually winning the Stanley Cup are way under rated and far off. 

Remember this is the same league that within the same year of having the Vegas golden knights appear their first year they went to the

Stanley Cup playoffs. 

So im saying Seattle needs to be at least look at being good

 enough at being a playoff contender.  If anyone has any analysis of the upcoming season please share.

@hillardoh1

 Ummmm they played 82 last year 

The kraken are not that great

Gl this season 

@dubz4dummyz

 Agreed. 82 games played. 27 wins. This year may improve, but only by a few wins and I'm being generous. Burakovsky, Schultz, Jones not enough puzzle pieces to make too much of a difference.  Improvement? Maybe. Playoff threat- leaning nah.

@hillardoh1

 BOL this season