P is for playoffs. D is for draft. F is for favorites.

Every year about this time, I watch with awe and a healthy dose of jealousy while experts and fans make their predictions for the playoffs, drafts, trades and winner of the Stanley Cup final. Now that I?m officially a hockey blogger, I figured I?d better get with it and make my own predictions. I tried, I really did. But I fear the results would make dogs howl at the moon. Instead, I will offer an alternative to laying down odds based on numbers, the types of prospects a team needs or who may or may not be activated from injured reserve. It?s a simple system I like to call ?picking favorites.? Oh, and if someone can explain to me how the New Jersey Devils ?won? the draft lottery, but the Edmonton Oilers are still picking first, that would be good too.

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