Solid top line but outside of that the offense seems very lacking. Defense and goalies are solid. If they can find some point product from anything outside the top line and power play they might have a chance to go for a wildcard position, but its doubtful from me.

If Engvall-Nelson-Palmieri can pick up where they left off (once Palms comes back), they'll be one of the best 2nd lines in the league. I think a huge part of our success will come down to how long it takes for Lambert to split up the 4th line. I'm hoping it happens sooner rather than later, giving us:

Wahlstrom-Horvat-Barzal
Engvall-Nelson-Palmieri
Lee-Pageau-Gauthier
Holmstrom-Cizikas-Fasching

I disagree with them being one of the best 2nd lines in the league, You have to be better than, Edmonton, Toronto, Washington, Pittsburg, NYR, Carolina, Tampa, Florida, Dallas, LA, Vegas, Seattle, etc.
All of those teams have very good 2nd lines.

Interesting. Some questions:

1. Where will NYI finish in the ranking?

2. What will most likely be the PP?

3. Who is likely to have a breakout year or who will surprise in terms of point production? Who is advantaged by the line combinations?

4. Who is likely to have a bad year in point production?

5. How many games each goalie is likely to play?

Ignore the initial response, I quoted the wrong post.

1. I think they'll be WC1 again but 3rd in the division isn't out of the question imo.
2. PP1 will probably be Dobson/Barzal/Horvat/Nelson/Lee, PP2 Aho/Pulock/Pageau/Wahlstrom/Engvall. I'd really like to see Pulock in the Ovi spot.
3. Hoping this is the year Wahlstrom finally breaks out, he looked good before the injury last year but still wasn't quite where he needs to be. the 2nd line was great last year, so I'd definitely say they benefit the most based on line combos.
4. I think Wahlstrom is just as likely to have bad production as he is to break out. I think if he doesn't break out this year he'll be moved, so we'll see how he handles it. Really pulling for him.
5. My guess is it'll probably be Sorokin around 55-60 games with Varly playing the rest.

Engvall-Nelson-Palmieri was statistically a top 3 line at 5v5 last season. Obviously it was a smaller sample size since Engvall didn't come until the deadline but they kept it up in the playoffs against a very good Carolina team. Like I said, if they can keep it up (which may or may not happen, but I think it's very possible), they will be one of the better 2nd lines in the league