One of my traditions is finding out every September about what the so called “experts” think about the up coming hockey year and what they rate the Stars.
This years batch of yearbooks have made people having to hold me back from sharp objects and shoe strings. For example The Hockey News is saying the Stars will finish 11th in the Western Confrence, that same yearbook graded the Stars a C-. Then theScore Forecaster put the Stars at 9th in the Western Confrence.
These rankings are a joke! Year after year the Stars have proved themselves to be quite worthy of a playoff spot, after all in the past 2 years they have had a grand total of 103 wins and 219 points.
Then what is the deal with the talk about them not making the playoffs? The same core of players are still there, they had only one major loss, Sydor. Plus how can you write off any team that has such a strong goaltending? Marty Turco and Mike Smith are the best 1-2 punch in the league. How about the shootout? We will easily get an extra 7-10 points this year from the winning shootouts. Those points will for sure make us a shoe in for the playoffs.
I almost forgot to tell you about my other favorite tradition.Picking up these yearbooks in April and looking at what kind of idiots these experts look like after picking the Stars to finish so low.
-Just a Reminder that my ‘expert’ picks for the 07/08 season will be shown on this blog in about 1 week-
