Chicago will win the President's Trophy
now this is totally wrong. while chicago has a pretty deep team, they did last year and last year everyone thought they'd break out and possibly win the great lakes. of course, that didn't happen, and i have no trust in them to do that this year despite adding disisde dayudie.

New Orleans will see a significant decline and barely make the playoffs
this actually isn't that bold considering the sheer amount of talent that the specters lost this offseason. their only major keep was rex kirkby, and losing both stars like cain and fox and depth like smyth and vanice hurts any team, not to mention the two-time reigning western division champions. they're still a playoff team, but not by much.

The Toronto North Stars will finish with fewer points than the Seattle Argonauts
like the previous one this isn't a bold take. toronto trading away jack kanoff will hurt their blueline massively and while the team is still young and growing they're poised to have a worse season than last season despite having talents like bobby lane, harry carpet, and danny marston.

The winner of the McBride Award (top goaltender) will come from the Atlantic Division
not a bold take considering the consistently fantastic goaltending performances of frans eller and peter larson, both of whom were goalie of the year contenders. throw in samat beibitzhanov who should be a breakout contender in atlanta plus the star power of luca del vecchio in baltimore, the atlantic division is stacked goalie-wise and predicting the mcbride winner coming from the atlantic is not a bold take at all.

Neither Buffalo nor Hamilton will make the Challenge Cup finals
this is wrong on so many levels. hamilton has assembles a murderer's row of talent by acquiring theo morgan and michael scarn in free agency to go along with their current stars like robert phelps, aaron wilson, and dick clapper. buffalo still has that stacked defense and adds hotshot rookie steve harrington to one of the best forward corps in the league. both teams may have lost 1 2k defenseman each in guy zheng (ham) and cassius darrow (sea) but with hamilton trading for ray bork to fill that hole and buffalo already having selich/wang/owens/vanderberg/scoop plus bringing in grizzled vet tor tuck, those roles should be filled. these two teams are insanely stacked and one of them should definitely make the CCF.