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2019-2020 Hockey forecast anybody got crystal ball polish

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It’s October, a chilly rainy day, and after watching the country music series by Ken Burns my crystal ball is having a foggy mountain breakdown. So here is my cloudy outlook and fifth annual fundamentally inane and profoundly half sane predictions for the 2019-2020 nhl season: 1) Steven Stamkos or Sidney Crosby will win the scoring championship if they stay healthy. In the top ten I expect to see Marner, Mackinnon, Mcdavid, Barzal, Gaudreau, Stone, and Kucherov. Is this the year somebody reaches 150 points? 2) The Norris will be a battle of swedes as Hedman and Karlsson should battle for it. Never can count out Brent Burns and the emergence of Morgan Reilly. One of them might win it. Rasmus Dahlin may make it a trio of Swedes. 3) The Maurice Richard trophy will go either to Matthews or Mackinnon. Matthews has been injury prone so if he does not play a full season it might go to Mackinnon. Long shots are Stamkos, Pacioretty, and Draisatl. For Draisatl, it depends if he plays ...

LET'S MAKE THE HABS GREAT AGAIN

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My fellow habs hockey fans enough is enough. We need  to make the habs great again. We have had one lame general manager and coach after another for the habs. I have decided to throw my hat in the ring when the inevitable axe falls on Bergy and Therrien. Habs fans are demanding change. I am an outsider and not part of the establishment. The old establishment makes promises that they never keep when in office. The so-called hockey pundits know nothing about hockey with their loser Corsi stats and lack of vision. What do I offer you may ask? Well let me start with the obvious: 1) Our trade deals under Bergy have been a catastrophe. We have been getting fleeced by other GM's. What do we have to show for these trade deals. Bergy has gotten us a bunch of fourth liners like Mitchell, Flynn, DSP, Danault, Matteau, and don't remind me of John Scott and Mike Brown. His contract signings of Markov, Plekanec, Eller, Emelin, and Petry are an unmitigated disaster. No other...