Season Predictions in Review

If you recall right before this season began (or have been reading the blog that long), Gray, my brother, and I all made predictions about how the teams would finish in both conferences. To refresh your memory, here is what we predicted and how things turned out:

Eastern Conference

Gray	Geoff	Mina	Actual
Pittsburgh	Tampa Bay	Montreal	Boston
Washington	Montreal	Pittsburgh	Washington
Montreal	Pittsburgh	Washington	New Jersey
New Jersey	Philadelphia	New York Rangers	Pittsburgh
New York Rangers	Ottawa	Philadelphia	Philadelphia
Buffalo	New Jersey	Tampa Bay	Carolina
Boston	Washington	New Jersey Devils	New York Rangers
Philadelphia	Buffalo	Boston	Montreal
Tampa Bay	Toronto	Ottawa	Florida
Toronto	New York Rangers	New York Islanders	Buffalo
Ottawa	Carolina	Buffalo	Ottawa
New York Islanders	New York Islanders	Toronto	Toronto
Carolina	Atlanta	Atlanta	Atlanta
Florida	Boston	Carolina	Tampa Bay
Atlanta	Florida	Florida	New York Islanders

Western Conference

Gray	Geoff	Mina	Actual
Detroit	Detroit	Detroit	San Jose
San Jose	San Jose	San Jose	Detroit
Anaheim	Calgary	Colorado	Vancouver
Calgary	Chicago	Dallas	Chicago
Dallas	Anaheim	Calgary	Calgary
Chicago	Colorado	Anaheim	St. Louis
Nashville	Dallas	Chicago	Columbus
Edmonton	Phoenix	Vancouver	Anaheim
Phoenix	Edmonton	Minnesota	Minnesota
Vancouver	Vancouver	Phoenix	Nashville
Colorado	St. Louis	Edmonton	Edmonton
Minnesota	Minnesota	Nashville	Dallas
Columbus	Columbus	Columbus	Phoenix
St. Louis	Nashville	St. Louis	Los Angeles
Los Angeles	Los Angeles	Los Angeles	Colorado

I think that we all did pretty well overall. Both my brother and I thought Tampa would be good this year, and while no one could have predicted their epic fail this season, it's kinda spectacular that my brother picked the #14 team to finish 1st and the #1 team to finish 14th. None of us had much faith in the Sharks to overtake the Wings in the conference and we all left the Blue Jackets and Blues out of the playoffs. I look kinda dumb for picking the Avs to win their division, but then again, I don't have snow blower ESP.

So there it is kids, our blind stabs in the dark have been evaluated. Either we're better at this than I thought we would be or close to the same teams keep making the playoffs. For my money, I'm going with us being amazing predicting people.