Each of us here at Gone Puck Wild have different ideas of what to expect from the Minnesota Wild this season, both as a team and individual players on the team.
Last year, could anyone have predicted Eric Staal’s 42 goals, or Las Vegas as a Stanley Cup Finalist? Could we have thought Taylor Hall would win the Hart Trophy, or the Edmonton Oilers would miss the playoffs?
Last September, those things all would have been considered as bold predictions. Those statements can be heavily scrutinized for being based loosely on fact, but mostly on hunches or gut feelings without determinable evidence to back it up.