SEASON PREDICTIONS: 2020-21

 

The 2020-21 NHL regular-season gets underway on January 13, 2021, and as we do each year, TFP’s Panel of Experts have offered their two-cents on how this campaign will play out. Feel free to chirp them on Twitter whenever you deem necessary.

TFP Panel

East Division

North Division

Central Division

West Division

Bamford

Bernstein

Di Marco

Gaffar

Hoven

Hutcheon

Pagnotta

Paton

Ward
 

TFP Panel

Stanley Cup Runner-Up

Stanley Cup Champion

Bamford

Bernstein

Di Marco

Gaffar

Hoven

Hutcheon

Pagnotta

Paton

Ward
 

TFP Panel

Art Ross

Rocket Richard

Hart

Norris

Vezina

Calder

Selke

Lady Byng

Jack Adams

Bamford

 Patrick Kane Artemi Panarin Nathan MacKinnon Alex Pietrangelo Carter Hart Ilya Sorokin Ryan O'Reilly Jaccob Slavin Jared Bednar

Bernstein

 Connor McDavid Alex Ovechkin Nathan MacKinnon Alex Pietrangelo Carey Price Tim Stuetzle Anthony Cirelli Auston Matthews Jared Bednar

Di Marco

 Connor McDavid Auston Matthews Nathan MacKinnon Miro Heiskanen Carey Price Ilya Sorokin Anthony Cirelli Jaccob Slavin Claude Julien

Gaffar

 Connor McDavid Auston Matthews Nathan MacKinnon Alex Pietrangelo Jacob Markstrom Quinton Byfield Patrice Beregron Sean Couturier Jared Bednar

Hoven

 Connor McDavid Auston Matthews Connor McDavid Shea Theodore Carey Price Gabriel Vilardi Sean Couturier Nathan MacKinnon Todd McLellan

Hutcheon

 Connor McDavid Alex Ovechkin Nathan MacKinnon John Carlson Jacob Markstrom Alexis Lafreniere Patrice Bergeron Auston Matthews Travis Green

Pagnotta

 Nathan MacKinnon Alex Ovechkin Alex Ovechkin Victor Hedman Carey Price Tim Stuetzle Mark Stone Elias Pettersson Peter Laviolette

Paton

 Auston Matthews Alex Ovechkin Nathan MacKinnon Victor Hedman Connor Hellebuyck Tim Stuetzle Patrice Bergeron Nathan MacKinnon Jared Bednar

Ward

 Connor McDavid Alex Ovechkin Nathan MacKinnon Victor Hedman Andrei Vasilevskiy Igor Shesterkin Mark Stone Nathan MacKinnon Peter Laviolette
 

TFP Panel

Last Place Team

Biggest Name Traded

Bamford

 Duncan Keith

Bernstein

 Patrik Laine

Di Marco

 Pierre-Luc Dubois

Gaffar

 Patrik Laine

Hoven

 Taylor Hall

Hutcheon

 Johnny Gaudreau

Pagnotta

 Taylor Hall

Paton

 Taylor Hall

Ward

 Pekka Rinne

TFP Experts:

Tab Bamford - Columnist, Chicago
Dennis Bernstein - Sr. Writer
Anthony Di Marco - NHL Correspondent
Irfaan Gaffar - Lead Reporter
John Hoven - Special Contributor, MayorsManor.com
Shawn Hutcheon - Boston Correspondent
David Pagnotta - Editor-in-Chief
Ryan Paton - Host, The Hot Stove on SiriusXM NHL Network Radio
Aaron Ward - Special Contributor, 3-time Stanley Cup Champion & NHL Broadcaster