Michael Lindow
August 27, 2009.
August 27, 2009.
The NHL has never failed to offer up its fair share of surprises in any given season. Here is my prediction of twenty things that will happen this year…..
1. Dany Heatley is traded to the New York Rangers for a package that includes Chris Drury to match salaries leaving the Rags without a legitimate number one NHL center.
2. Sean Avery acts up and is suspended by the league once again and is bought out by the Rangers.
3. After another slow start the Atlanta Thrashers fire coach John Anderson.
4. General Managers Bob Gainey and Glen Sather are both fired in November. Leafs Dave Nonis takes theNew York job and former Hab legend Patrick Roy returns to Montreal
5. Jim Balsillie buys the debt riddled Buffalo Sabres and moves them toHamilton
6. Milan Lucic and Mike Komisarek renew their hatred and are both serve lengthy suspensions after a stick swinging incident.
7. Joe Thornton’s woes continue after being stripped of his assistant captaincy in the off season big Joe does not makeCanada
8. Roberto Luongo has his best season to date and isCanada ’s starting goalie at the Olympics leading them to a gold medal in front of his home fans in Vancouver
9. Theoren Fleury is signed by the Calgary Flames much to the fans delight and ends up scoring 20 goals.
2. Sean Avery acts up and is suspended by the league once again and is bought out by the Rangers.
3. After another slow start the Atlanta Thrashers fire coach John Anderson.
4. General Managers Bob Gainey and Glen Sather are both fired in November. Leafs Dave Nonis takes the
5. Jim Balsillie buys the debt riddled Buffalo Sabres and moves them to
6. Milan Lucic and Mike Komisarek renew their hatred and are both serve lengthy suspensions after a stick swinging incident.
7. Joe Thornton’s woes continue after being stripped of his assistant captaincy in the off season big Joe does not make
8. Roberto Luongo has his best season to date and is
9. Theoren Fleury is signed by the Calgary Flames much to the fans delight and ends up scoring 20 goals.
10. The
11. After leading
12. Chicago Black Hawk winger Marian Hossa’s shoulder is much worse than first diagnosed and misses the entire season.
13. Canadiens goaltender Carey Price bounces back from a bad 2008-09 campaign and becomes one of the leagues top netminders.
14. John Tavares is among the top ten in league scoring winning the Calder trophy by a landslide.
15. Washington Capitals Alexander Ovechkin becomes the first NHL player to score 70 goals in a season since 1992-93 season.
16. The Rangers without any decent centremen finish last in league standings.
17. Flyers goalie Ray Emery is one of the nominees for the Vezina trophy after having a huge season.
18. The NHL as predicted lowers the salary cap number for the following season forcing the Penguins to deal Evgeni Malkin.
19. At seasons end Ilya Kovalchuk and Alexander Frolov shock the hockey world by leaving the NHL and for the KHL.
20. KHL continues to poach the NHL for players. With the lowered salary cap for the following season Kim Johnsson, Olli Jokinen, Pavol Demitra, Vesa Toskala, Evgeni Nabokov, Sergei Gonchar, Pavel Kubina, Milan Hejduk, Antero Nittymaki and Andrew Raycroft all join Frolov and Kovalchuk in bolting for the Russian league.
3 comments:
Some of these are way too far out. No way all of those guys leave for the KHL; it's reputation is lower than ever.
And the Canucks will not win the Cup. Not even close.
I'd bet you had no idea the Lightning would win the Cup the year before the lockout, did you? Or that the Penguins would win the Cup last year sitting out of the playoffs midway through the year? You can't say a team will not win the Cup before the season's even started.
damn dude your Rangers hatred and Vancouver bias is ridic
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