Semble être sous-estimé et les lignes avant semblent un peu décalées.
No. 18: Vancouver Canucks
This could be a defining season in Vancouver, where they're betting on their core players and The Bruce Boudreau Effect™ to carry them forward.
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Hey, at least he is not throwing in the Willie D. special.
If I recall his model takes the past several years into account, so no surprise it underrates the Canucks. We haven’t done much to inspire confidence.
Basically a coin flip to make the playoffs is pretty fair though
It’s mostly fair IMO. We’re banking on a breakout year from Pod, improvement from Hog, and Rathbone. If you rely on too many “ifs” chances are you’re not a good team.
I think we’ll be better, though, but I wouldn’t call this underrated. Our defence is in shambles where it matters (top pair + depth)
Seems about right to me, other than slightly wonky line combos (which don’t effect the numbers). The whole team has had some ups and downs. They finished off last season strong with a new coach buzz. We will see this year if that was reproducable over a full season. But overall didn’t improve the roster much on a season where they missed the playoffs (despite a massive explosion from Miller).
Their big splash was on a middle six winger, who is undeniably solid but coming off a career high shooting percentage. Still some glaring holes on D outside of an electric Hughes. Kuzmenko could be an X-factor and outperform the numbers here, but thats very hard to predict.
Overall a bubble team with about a 50% chance of making the playoffs seems about right. Will be dependant on Miller reproducing a career high season, the other stars stepping up, and the Bruce effect lasting.
Honestly here’s the thing – data is going to predict an average team because data can’t predict huge breakout seasons.
For the Canucks to be anything more than average they will likely need to see career years from Pettersson, Boeser, Podkolzin, Hughes, etc.
I think given age, circumstance, etc there is an actual shot of a lot of those players doing just that – but it isn’t something that you could predict with data and no context with respect to Boeser’s fathers health and even with Petey having 2 completely different seasons in 1.
So anyhow seems a fair assessment but I think the Canucks will do better than that this season.
The same rankings give Micheal Bunting a 2.8. Its not a very good model.