The new season is approaching. Carlsson and Celebrini have new 18M AAV deals. Bedard hurt his other shoulder. The Panthers got hte other Tkachuk, and Barkov is back.

The Rangers should be improved as well, their defensive corps is miles better and they should see some offensive improvement from the key youngsters, plus they picked up Dorofeyev.

I'll go with Car/Buf as the EC division champs, with NYR, FLA, WAS, and MTL as my non-wildcard playoff teams in the East.

In the West, Colorado will switch places with Dallas in their division, and Minnesota will again be the third non-wildcard.

The Pacific will continue to be ridiculous. Edmonton, VGK and SJ make it to the playoffs out of that division.