Predicting Every NHL Team’s 2027 Season

Predicting Every NHL Team’s 2027 Season This might genuinely be the hardest year I've ever tried to predict. Think about what we're working with. Carolina just won it all. Buffalo finally snapped a fourteen-year playoff drought. Montreal made a surprise run to the Eastern Conference Final. Colorado won fifty-five regular-season games. Vegas went right back to the Stanley Cup Final without missing a beat. And on top of all that, you've got young teams like San Jose and Utah trying to graduate from "rebuilding" into "actually competing." And a bunch of teams that made the playoffs last year now look almost unrecognizable heading into this one. So before puck drop on the 2027 season, I'm going division by division, all 32 teams, and giving you my exact predicted finish for every single one of them. Let's start with the division I think is the single toughest to call in the entire league — the Atlantic.