2021 season: BOLD predictions

[PenguinHunter]

1. Grigori Denisenko wins the Calder playing alongside Barkov and Huberdeau
2. John Gibson wins the Hart Trophy and the Vezina as the Ducks finish 3rd in the division behind Colorado and Vegas.
3. Flyers beat Pittsburgh 6-3 on opening night - Nolan Patrick and Oskar Lindblom each score hat-tricks.
4. Oskar Lindblom leads the Flyers in points.
5. Karill Kaprizov wins the Rocket Richard.
6. Ottawa and Buffalo make the playoffs
7. Nashville Predators win the Presidents Trophy and the Stanley Cup.
8. Tampa's Stnaley Cup hangover and the loss of Kucherov, is too much to overcome in a 56 game season and miss the playoffs by one points. Winning 8 straight games to finish the season.
9. An NHL team gets hit hard with COVID to some star players and ties the Penguins record of 18 straight losses.
10. Colorado or Vegas, surpass the Penguins longest winning streak of 17 games... and win 19 straight games... they lose game #20 in a shootout to the Ducks

Wow... I failed miserably!

Only hit on #9 with Buffalo's long losing streak.

[chuckcouples]

Let's try this again this year as last year was a fail (see the end of the post).

1. Ville Husso plays more games than Jordan Binnington and has better numbers.
2. Connor McDavid wins the Art Ross, the Rocket Richard and the Hart Trophy when he puts up 111 points.
3. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins finishes 2nd on the Oilers in scoring but does not sign a new contract (...until after the expansion draft).
4. 4 dmen lead their teams in scoring
5. 1 goalie plays more than 46 games this year...no other goalie plays 40 games
6. Igor Shesterkin is outplayed by Alex Georgiev.
7. 2 California teams make the playoffs (I am counting San Jose as a California team even though they may be playing out of Arizona)
8. There are more point per game players than in any previous season.
9. Cam Talbot finished top 3 in Vezina voting.
10. Egor Zamula finishes the year on Philadelphia's top PP unit.

Bonus 11: A Canadian team advances to the NHL's semi-finals for the first time in a few years!

1. Nope 41GP for Binnington and 17 for Husso but Husso did have more shutouts than Binnington! 0 Points
2. McDavid wins 2 of the 3 trophies and is 2nd for the Rocket Richard and has 104 points with 1 game left. 1 Point
3. RNH is 5th in points with 1 game left so that's wrong but he has not yet signed a new contract. 0.5 points (for now)
4. Hronek - Det and Josi - Nas led their teams but 4 other teams had a dmen finish 2nd. 0.5 points
5. 4 goalies played 40 or more games and Hellebuyck led the league with 44. 0 points
6. Shesterkin was better than Georgiev. 0 points
7. 0 California teams made the playoffs. 0 points
8. There were 29 points per game players which is more than the 28 from the previous year but less than the 37 in 18/19. 0 points
9. Talbot was an above average starter but not a Vezina finalist. 0 points.
10. Zamula had 2 games played and 19 seconds of PP time. 0 points

1 correct prediction, 2 half correct predictions.

[hockeyrobot]

If your bold prediction said the season will officially end a quarter of the way through round one.... You win!!!

[Invictus]

They should of played at least a period with both goalies pulled.

[lucafen4]

Dylan Strome puts up 50+pts - horrible fail
Elias Pettersson wins Art Ross - Yikes
Austin Matthews scores 50 in 50 - a couple real good stretches. As close as anyone realistically expected.
Tyson Barrie flops in Edmonton + Evan Bouchard is on PP1 by end of March - total opposite occurred
Cale Makar goes over point per game for season - 44 in 44. That's a win!
Korpisalo & Merzlikins win the Jennings Trophy - A year early! I'll make it again next year
Mark Grzerlcyk hsa 15 PPP and 35pts - 51pt pace. - 30 point & 10.5 PPP - pace over 56gp. Injury free I say he would have made it... damn.
Jake Virtanen flirts with 30 goals in 56 games - Instead his career might be done.

*Loui Eriksson is drafted by Seattle Kraken. Vancouver sends Brogan Rafferty, Kole Lind or 2nd round pick along with - Still a chance I get this one right .

More Yikes than good.