The Metropolitan Division could be a jumbled mess this season

Now that the Islanders have finally registered a litany of contracts this week to re-sign Kyle Palmieri, Anthony Beauvillier, Ilya Sorokin and Casey Cizikas, and eye can start to turn to the general team strengths when it comes to next season.

Here’s one such model based on WAR.

As Jack would go onto say, “Remember that even the best standings point projections (eye test or predictive model) tend to be around 7 points off on average. So if team x is above team y by 2 points, I would recommend not freaking out.