Canada in the nfl

1. Vancouver Canucks with their forwards who are very talented that they will score lots of goals and if the defence comes together and works well which will make Luongo a better goalie and gives them the best chance to win the stanley cup.

2. Ottawa Senators with Sergei Gonchar addition to the defence will make the team better and the offense with Daniel Alfredsson, Jason spezza, and Mike fisher are going to put puck in the net. In the end it all comes down to if Brian Elliot or Pascal Leclaire can stop pucks from going into their own net that will determing if and how far they go into the playoffs.

3. Calgary Flames will go as far as Miikka Kiprusoff will take them with two top defenseman Robyn Regehr and Jay Bouwmeester and then really nothing else. The forward Jerome Iginla has not a lot of help because Alex Tanguay and Olli Jokinen are both being ask to turn back the clock and put up #'s like they have put up a couple of seasons ago along with hoping Craig Conroy, Brett Sutter, Brandon Morrison, and Rene Bourque need to put up some good #'s.

4. Toronto Maple Leafs need Kessel to put up huge #'s to give them a chance to challenge for a playoff spot this season and he will need some of his team-mates to help him. The defence did not work well together last season with Komisarek having an off season and Phaneuf needs to have a career season, which would be a lot better than last year. Tomas Kaberle is above average defensive defencemen but will he keep his mind on the ice or will he worry about where he will be next year and finally who is going to be in the net this season and will they be able to keep the puck out of their own net and it will be close.

5. Edmonton Oiler - Nikolai Khabibulin is a good goalie and will need to keep the team in the game and to steal wins which he will do it and the young players like Taylor Hall are going to be learning on the job and they may have groan pains.

6. Montreal Canadiens will live and die by how Carey Price will do and as he has never played like a #1 goalie even when he has been the #1 goalie in the past so the defence will need to block and intercept a lot of pucks and i do not know if they will be able to do it enough.

Tom Mehegan