Florida Panthers
The Panthers are a weird team.
It was just a couple years ago when they went all-in on analytics, then completely under cut the process > results philosophy almost the second things didn’t work as planned.
I maintain that Dale Tallon is one of the worst GMs in the NHL today, and I am definitely not as strong on this roster as some other writers have been in their season previews.
Bobrovsky is too old to get the contract they gave him, and I don’t think Jonathan Huberdeau will be quite as good as he was last year.
Barkov is a stud, and they’ve also got Dadonov and several other useful players, but overall, I think they are going to be the NHL’s biggest disappointment this year.
When I made this list, I didn’t want to rank the teams in my predicted order, so I tried to give a lot of weight to last year’s standings and other people’s takes on the team.
They’re starting in fourth but I think they fall fast.