2024-25 Predictions Thread

[Jess]

It's that time of year again! Time to stake your claim to your predictions so we can all laugh at you at the end of next year. I can't wait!

 

This thread is for both Canuck predictions and NHL predictions, so make either.

 

This thread will lock shortly before the start of the NHL season and I'll unlock it after the Canucks season is done. Get your predictions in before it's too late!

[Jess]

My predictions for Canucks stats:

 

 

Players:

- Miller and Pettersson have similar years to last year, but finish closer to each other in scoring.

- Pettersson finishes 6th in Selke voting and top three in Lady Byng voting again

- Hughes finishes 2nd in Norris voting to Makar

- Boeser's scoring drops as his shooting % comes down to earth and some fans have a problem with him again

- DeBrush thrives with Petey and scores a career-best 28 goals

- Garland has a steady year being used on all four lines

- Hronek scores more goals, but has fewer assists. His shot is great on the powerplay.

- Heinen, Sprong, and Hoglander all play on all four lines as the team juggles the lines

- Sherwood is a fan favourite and thrives on the bottom six

- Joshua has injury problems and his scoring drops as he goes through an extended slump

- Karlsson is the young guy who gets a chance--he's just okay

- Desharnais is a surprisingly solid player, but not overly impressive and struggles against tougher competition

- Juulsen struggles to beat out Desharnais for the no. 6 spot and plays as the no. 7 defenseman

- Demko is injured to start the season, but when he comes back, he helps the team immensely after a slow start

- Patera swaps starts with Silovs for the start of the year

- Silovs struggles with consistency

 

Team:

- Team goes 45-27-10 for 100 points, finishing 3rd in the Pacific behind the Oilers and Golden Knights

- The team scores 268 goals and allows 245 goals

- Net PP% finishes 10th and their net PK % finishes 20th

- Team beats Vegas in seven games in round one, beats Edmonton in six games in round two, and loses to the Avalanche in five games in the Western Conference Final.

 

Around the league:

- Bedard scores exactly 100 points

- Makar wins the Norris and scores 97 points doing so

- McDavid wins the Hart, Ted Lindsay, and Art Ross with 40 goals and 95 assists for 135 points

- The Avalanche win the Cup and Makar wins the Conn Smythe

- Shesterkin wins the Vezina

- Dustin Wolf wins the Calder for the Flames

[Toni Zamboni]

Canucks win the cup in 6 games.

[Canuck You]

Going to have to open up an Excel document for safety reasons..This might be awhile.

[Hogs and Podz]

Can someone please bump/find last year's projections?  Just curious....

 

With healthy goalies and healthy Petey:

50-23-9. 107 points

 

End up finishing second in division behind the Coilers. 

 

End up 4th in conference. 

 

If healthy enough will make it into conference final, but lose.  

 

It's season 25-26 we win it all. 

 

 

[Reg]

The Canucks make it to the playoffs and get knocked in the third round. Dallas wins the Stanley Cup.

[Rip The Mesh]

The 2024-2025 season, is the year the Vancouver Canucks drink from Lord Stanley's Cup.

[grumpyone]

this year is a success as long as we go further than the Oilers. Preferably knocking them out in the 2nd round. ( in 5 games )cause Karma you know. 

 

[Dumb Nuck]

I predict we meet the Oilers in the first round and the team that wins will win the Cup.

 

Hughes wins the Norris.

[Alflives]

23 hours ago, Jess said:

My predictions for Canucks stats:

 

 

Players:

- Miller and Pettersson have similar years to last year, but finish closer to each other in scoring.

- Pettersson finishes 6th in Selke voting and top three in Lady Byng voting again

- Hughes finishes 2nd in Norris voting to Makar

- Boeser's scoring drops as his shooting % comes down to earth and some fans have a problem with him again

- DeBrush thrives with Petey and scores a career-best 28 goals

- Garland has a steady year being used on all four lines

- Hronek scores more goals, but has fewer assists. His shot is great on the powerplay.

- Heinen, Sprong, and Hoglander all play on all four lines as the team juggles the lines

- Sherwood is a fan favourite and thrives on the bottom six

- Joshua has injury problems and his scoring drops as he goes through an extended slump

- Karlsson is the young guy who gets a chance--he's just okay

- Desharnais is a surprisingly solid player, but not overly impressive and struggles against tougher competition

- Juulsen struggles to beat out Desharnais for the no. 6 spot and plays as the no. 7 defenseman

- Demko is injured to start the season, but when he comes back, he helps the team immensely after a slow start

- Patera swaps starts with Silovs for the start of the year

- Silovs struggles with consistency

 

Team:

- Team goes 45-27-10 for 100 points, finishing 3rd in the Pacific behind the Oilers and Golden Knights

- The team scores 268 goals and allows 245 goals

- Net PP% finishes 10th and their net PK % finishes 20th

- Team beats Vegas in seven games in round one, beats Edmonton in six games in round two, and loses to the Avalanche in five games in the Western Conference Final.

 

Around the league:

- Bedard scores exactly 100 points

- Makar wins the Norris and scores 97 points doing so

- McDavid wins the Hart, Ted Lindsay, and Art Ross with 40 goals and 95 assists for 135 points

- The Avalanche win the Cup and Makar wins the Conn Smythe

- Shesterkin wins the Vezina

- Dustin Wolf wins the Calder for the Flames

Your predictions suck pucks. 
We friggin’ win the Cup. F the Avs and Mr. Rosy Cheeks. 

[EastCoastExpress]

23 hours ago, Jess said:

My predictions for Canucks stats:

 

 

 

I really hope the Canucks print this and put on a wall.

Whoever beats it by the most gets a BBQ. Faves for winning, Brock and Dakota.... what are you thinking

[Nucker67]

Just guesses eh?

 

Regular Season

 

Pettersson - 112 pts

Miller - 106 pts

Hughes 100 pts

 

Canucks win the Pacific division again (1 point ahead of the Oilers)

 

Oilers' Jeff Skinner gets concussed at some point

 

Playoffs

 

Canucks lose to the Stars in the conference Finals (7 games). The Stars go on to win the Cup (against the Bruins).

 

Awards

 

Hughes wins the Norris again

Demko-Silovs win the William M. Jennings

Miller is a Hart finalist

 

[Jess]

11 minutes ago, EastCoastExpress said:

I really hope the Canucks print this and put on a wall.

Whoever beats it by the most gets a BBQ. Faves for winning, Brock and Dakota.... what are you thinking

 

Would love it! Not my hopes, just my predictions. Joshua was shooting at over 20% last year--his career average is 16.9% and most forwards average around 11-13%.

 

Boeser was a similar story at 19.6% this past year when his career average is 13.8%. Prior to this year, in his good years he was at the low 16% range.

 

I predicted Kuzmenko to fall off last year because he was similarly at a crazy 27.3% shooting percentage and indeed, he went from 39 goals to 22 goals and 18.2% shooting percentage (though with the Flames he was 24.1%, so he's probably just a great shooter).

[EastCoastExpress]

2 hours ago, Jess said:

 

Would love it! Not my hopes, just my predictions. Joshua was shooting at over 20% last year--his career average is 16.9% and most forwards average around 11-13%.

 

Boeser was a similar story at 19.6% this past year when his career average is 13.8%. Prior to this year, in his good years he was at the low 16% range.

 

I predicted Kuzmenko to fall off last year because he was similarly at a crazy 27.3% shooting percentage and indeed, he went from 39 goals to 22 goals and 18.2% shooting percentage (though with the Flames he was 24.1%, so he's probably just a great shooter).

Everyone last season was PREACHING regression for BB06 (and the whole Canucks team)

Went from 19.6% reg season to 25% in the playoffs. Shooter is a shooter. Many complain he is slow. Snipers have a saying, Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast.

Joshua reminds me of him with his shot, but has the hits to go with it. If Dak was with JT and Brock, this is the next Nas/Bert/Morrison line, but just my opinion. Maybe the USA line?

Edited September 5 by EastCoastExpress

[Pure961089]

Check out Hockey News' Canucks predictions. Isn't that crazy?  

 

  https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/vancouver-canucks/game-day/a-way-too-early-projection-of-the-canucks-2024-25-opening-night-roster

Realistically Heinen should be on the wing and Suter at centre.  Maybe this writer thinks Heinen can play centre because he's got a C/W next to his name?

 

 

 

 

[CaptainQuin]

Canucks finish the year top 10 in powerplay and PK 

 

canucks win the western division 

 

Petey finishes with the most points with 105 pts

[Captain Kirk]

Canucks finish the season with 110 points and beat L.A. in round one, Edmonton in round two, Dallas in round three and beat Toronto in the Stanley Cup. Demko with the MVP.

Edited September 5 by Captain Kirk

[Salacious Crumb]

We are the presidents of the NHL’s Sad Club with over  50 years of futility cred. 
 

Last season we overachieved - we can’t win it all, that would destroy our loveable loser mystique. I suspect some regression this season.
 

Canucks finish with 96 points. Demko

is never the same and enters the goalie graveyard. Edmonton wins the Cup and millions are turned off hockey for life.

[Pure961089]

Petey and Miller will continue their friendly rivalry and try to out do each like they've doing for a few years now. Miller will get around 35 goals and 100 points again, as long as he is on the top PP unit with Hughes and Petey.  Boeser had a magical year, but I'm not expecting 40 goals this year. 30+ goals but he'll finish with more points than last year with 75+ points. 

 

Debrusk will have career highs playing with Petey all year. Their chemistry will be symbiotic.  Debrusk like Boeser will also get 30+ goals and get about 70 points. Hoglander, due to his playing style will get goals regardless of who he plays with. He will be moved up and down the lineup as needed and score 25-30 goals this year. He is learning the defensive side of the game and thriving under Tocchet's mentorship. 

 

Petey especially went through a lot of trials last year.  He will be especially motivated to make amends with his teammates. He takes a lot of responsibility with what happened last year, he was regulated to the the 3rd line with Mikheyev and Lafferty.  This team is leagues more deeper than they were at any point last year.  He will lead the team in points with 40+ goals and over 110 points. 

 

Hughes will continue his dominance after having unlocked another level last year.  He will quarterback a very potent and improved PP.  He will be pushing himself towards career highs this year.  I can't see Miller and Petey getting over 100 points each and not have Hughes be right there with those 2.  Due to a very dangerous PP he will get 100 or close to it as well.

 

As long as the team doesn't waiver from Tocchet's defence first system they will remain a very strong team with core players having career years.  This team is just different than the Benning teams, they expect to win, their standards of effort are very high.  They will challenge the Oilers for 1st in the division.  

 

 

Edited Saturday at 01:58 AM by Pure961089

[LaBamba]

We take a step back but a weak pacific division gets us in a playoff spot. 
Don’t love our defence and don’t think we a contender because of it. 

[IBatch]

Team's going to kicks ass. 

 

Just belief.  

 

It does look like our team is working on the second season based on this summers signings.    The goal is no longer "make the playoff's".    It's next level.    This team is awfully easy to like.  The core's now at go time.    How far they go.... Gretzky said this about us last year "they can go as far as they believe they can go".    We have a very good team, that's well coached.   One of, if not the best defenseman in the league.   Two, two-way centers capable of 100 plus points.    A great third line.   And goaltending.   Plus a ton of depth in the wings, as well as 7-8 d's.    

 

Just going to enjoy it.   There are no easy outs these days in the post season.   Our team, is now one of the hardest outs.   Look what we did with our second and third string goalie.    Allvin will add what we need, and keep adding what we need to succeed in the regular and post season.  

 

Team ends up second in the division and plays Vegas first round.   Then the Oilers, we make Albertans and SN media shed tears.   Next up Dallas, by then we believe and win in five, the same way we ran over TO in 94.    Then we play the Rangers for the cup, and broom them.    EP leads the post season with 28 points,  Brock wins the Conn Smythe with his club record breaking 18 goals.  

Edited yesterday at 02:22 PM by IBatch

[Cromeslab]

McD and/or Drai suffer season ending injury,Oil miss the playoffs.

[IBatch]

On 9/9/2024 at 12:29 AM, LaBamba said:

We take a step back but a weak pacific division gets us in a playoff spot. 
Don’t love our defence and don’t think we a contender because of it. 

EDM, VEG, VAN aren't exactly "weak".     Then there is LA, who last year odds had as a contender going into the post season, same with us... of the 8 contenders going into based on the bookies, 3 of them came from our division...    SEA took a step back and needs work, but was a playoff team that won a round the year before.   Not an "easy out", there early picks are poised to start clicking (and already have).   Like  Vegas, not a typical expansion team. 

 

Central has Dallas, COL, WNP, NSH as their top teams then MIN, STL, UTAH   and CHI who's still going to suck for a couple more years anyways and for sure  on par with our two worst teams.   UTAH and STL not so hot either.   VEG, EDM, VAN for sure line up well against their top four, LA probably not but not far off.   The wildcard hopeful's is a mixed bag.

 

Saying we get in the playoffs because we are in a weak division is pretty invalidating.    Doesn't matter what division you play in anymore, there is too many teams that could or could not get in the post season.   Vegas has been a powerhouse, and EDM likely would have won a cup if  they didn't play us.   Beating Dallas was no small thing either.    Wasn't Dallas who made it to the final either (my prediction).  

 

Then there is the simple math.  We play our division 26 games, at least 3 games each.   We also play the central 24 times, 3 games each.    Not sure how they figure out the extra home game but not going to worry about that.    The Central also gets to play, our division 24 times.     Maybe when divisions either had 7 or 8 teams it mattered a bit more.   The difference between a playoff team and a bubble playoff team is razor thin these days.    And there is always a team like we were last year, that pushes a "sure bet " or "playoff lock" into a wild card spot or out entirely.    
 

Max of four points!   And not going to check the schedule, to see if we are "lucky" enough to play SJ, ANA 4 games instead of 3. 

 

Edit:  As for our defense, it's a work in progress.   That said trust in Allvin.   That he will make it better, like he did last season.    Also think our team on paper, just got a heck of a lot harder to play against.   Like the TO media said when they were drooling over Allvins adds and our already gritty roster, every player came with the post season in mind.  And they at least, feel we are for sure a playoff team.    It's funny how our own media is so critical.    Others are fawning over our team.   Our players, coach and our brass. 

 

  They were so happy De-Brusk was no longer on the Bruins and in their conference.    Our D won't be fun to play against, that part is loveable.  

Edited yesterday at 02:35 PM by IBatch