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HabsWorld 17th Annual Regular Season Prediction Contest


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The 17th Annual HabsWorld Regular Season prediction contest.

Hall of Fame:

2006-2007 Jean won with a prediction of 92 points when the Habs finished the year with 90 pts. If only we could have won that last game.

2007-2008 Adirondack Bud exactly predicted our final total of 104 pts.

2008-2009 Zowpeb won by predicting a strong start followed by a slower 2nd half ending with 99 points. The Habs finished the season in 8th place with 93 points. On September 22, 2008 Zowpeb predicted "I think we'll see a rough patch just past the mid-year point..." Wow!

2009-2010 Joelassister correctly predicted the Habs would finish with 88 points.
Honourable mention to kaos who predicted a season record of 39-34-9 (87 pts) while the Habs finished 39-33-10.

2010-2011 Chips produced the all time best prediction. His preseason prediction of 44-30-8 for 96 pts 6th in the East, 14th in the NHL was exactly correct in every aspect. That amazing feat will be hard to duplicate.
Honourable mentions went to Seb whose excellent prediction of 44-30-8 for 96 pts. 5th in east, 13th in NHL came up just short; and to Peter Puck who also correctly predicted the Habs would finish with 96 points.

2011-2012 sakiqc
Our fearless leader won with his prediction of 37-34-11 for 85 points. The Habs record was 31-35-16 for 78 points.
Honourable mention went to Habsfan who correctly predicted that the Habs would score 212 goals.

2012-2013 illWill won by predicting the Habs would finish with a record of 27-16-5 for 59 points.
The Habs finished 29-14-5 for 63 points.
Honourable mention to PMAC and to former champion Chips who both predicted the Habs to finish with 58 points.

2013-2014 Meller93 exactly predicted the Habs final record 46-28-5-3.
Honourable mention to thehabbit who correctly predicted the Habs final point total and just missed getting their record exactly right.

 

2013-2014 nihliz predicted 50-23-5-4 for 109 points. In fact the Habs finished the season 50-22-5-5 for 110 points. Honourable mentions went to nhfarberwho predicted 49-23-4-6 for 108 points and to sakiqc who predicted 51-26-1-4 for 107 points

 

2015-2016 Chris predicted 40-30-8-4 for 92 points. The injury ridden Habs finished the season 38-38-3-3 for 82 points.

 

2016-2017 The Habs finished the regular season 47-26-7-2 for 103 points.

Using tie breakers:

thehabbit had the winning prediction when he predicted 47-25-5-5 = 104 pts  and

Honourable mentions to kaos and Bluecross.

kaos predicted 46-26-6-4 = 102 pts

BlueKross predicted 46-24-6-4 =102 pts. 

 

2017-2018 The Habs finished the regular season 29-40-7-6 for 71 points.

All the predictions were bad but the least bad was by

Dalhabs who won by predicting 42-30-6-4 = 94 pts.

 

 

2018-2019 The Habs finished the regular season 44-30-8 for 96 points and 246 goals.

The prediction contest came down to the last game of the season, indeed down to the number of goals scored in that game.

The winner was

BCHabnut  predicted 42-27-6-7 (97 points) and crucially 248 goals.

Honourable mentions go to:

Dalhabs  42-30-6-4 (94 points)

and

illWill 42-29-7-4 (95 points) 243 goals.

 

 

 

2019-2020 The Habs finished the pandemic season 31-31-9 for 71 points in 71 games.

 

The winner was

illWill predicted 39-36-2-5 (85 points).

Honourable mention to:

tomh009 who predicted 0-0-0-82.  Unfortunately for posterity tomh009 also predicted 40-32-10

 

 

2021 Season The Habs finished the season 24-21-8-3 for 59 points in the North Division in 56 games.

Habsfan84 won by predicting  27-22-3-4 for 61 points.  Like every entry his prediction overestimated the Habs final points.

Habsfan84 also correctly predicted the Habs would get to the 2nd round but thought they would lose there instead of making the Stanley Cup final.

 

2022 Season The Montreal Canadiens compiled a regular season record  22-49-7-4 for 55 points.  Almost duplicating the points from their cup final year of 2021 but finishing 32nd in the league. 

DalHabs predicted 31-39-7-5 for a total of 74 points.   For the second year in a row all contestants over estimated the Habs performance.
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DalHabs and illWill are the two repeat winners!!!
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2022-2023 edition

 

For the last 2 years every contestant has predicted more points for the Habs than the team achieved. 

This is a contest to predict the Habs regular season performance during the 2022-2023 NHL season.

Predicting the Habs 2022-2023 playoff performance is another easier contest. 


Rules for this season.

Predict
a) what the Habs regular season record will be: wins-losses-OTL-SOL
b) in what place in the Atlantic Division the Habs will finish
c) in what place in the league the Habs will finish
d) Tiebreaker the total number of goals Cole Caufield will score this season (including goals scored in shootout win or lose) as a Hab.

The winner will be based upon the most accurate prediction of the Habs final points. 

In the event of a tie bonus points will be awarded for getting the number of wins, number of losses, number of OTL's or number of SOL's correct

or nearly correct.

The tie breakers will be combined in some crazy way to break ties if required.

 

 

The decision of Peter Puck is final.  Contest is void where prohibited.

Don't forget to separate overtime losses and shootout losses.

Entries due before puck drop on Wednesday October 12 at 7:07pm EST.

 

Good luck.

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d) Tiebreaker the total number of goals Cole Caufield will score this season (including 1 goal per shootout win).

 

Does a goal get added regardless of whether Caufield shoots and/or scores?
Or do you want the total number of goals Caufield scores, including any scored in a shootout, but only those shootouts that the Habs win.

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2 hours ago, Peter Puck said:

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d) Tiebreaker the total number of goals Cole Caufield will score this season (including 1 goal per shootout win). ...

 

 

To clarify, does the bolded text above mean Caufield's total "Rocket Richard Award eligible" goals plus one for every:

  1. shootout the Habs win, regardless of whether Caufield shoots or scores;
  2. goal Caufiled scores in a shootout that the habs win; or
  3. goal Caufield scores in a shootout

 

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a) what the Habs regular season record will be: wins-losses-OTL-SOL

  • 29-38-10-5.  EDIT: 73 points

b) in what place in the Atlantic Division the Habs will finish

  • 8th

c) in what place in the league the Habs will finish

  • 30th

d) Tiebreaker the total number of goals Cole Caufield will score this season (including goals scored in shootout win or lose) as a Hab

  • 37
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51-26-5-2 107pnts 4th in Atlantic, at which time Price returns pulling a TB over the cap playoff run announcing his retirement with a cup and the MVP, Cole pots 52, Primeau finds his posts and becomes our future, ST Louis wins Jack Adams, Ghule is nominated but shunned for Norris but takes the Calder. Habs take Leafs in first round silencing the nation for another few months.

 

edit   missed this, 12th in the league

 

Call me an optimistic dreamer

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I usually try to make the most optimistic prediction, but Johnny has taken care of that for me so I am going for an uncharacteristically realistic prediction. Not a fan of tanking but I think HuGort are taking the best approach to avoid establishing a loser mentality and set up the club for long term success 
Points 

28-39-11-4

Division

8th

League

29th

 

Tie Beaker

30 goals 

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a) 35 - 36 - 8 - 3 = 81 points

 

b) 5th Atlantic 

 

c) 23rd League

 

d) 35 Goals

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27-44-7-4 = 65 points 

 

8th in Atlantic


28th in NHL


45 Goals

 

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To Predict:
a) what the Habs regular season record will be: wins-losses-OTL-SOL

   I believe that they will do better than last year, but not by much: 29W-44L-5OTL-4SOL=67pts
b) in what place in the Atlantic Division the Habs will finish

   7th ahead of Buffalo
c) in what place in the league the Habs will finish

   29th ahead of Chicago, Arizona and Buffalo
d) Tiebreaker the total number of goals Cole Caufield will score this season (including goals scored in shootout win or lose) as a Hab.

   29 goals

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  • 3 months later...

We know the tiebreaker result now. Cole Caufield ended with 26 goals in game play plus went 2 for 3 on the shootout. His grand total will be locked in at 28 goals. Looks like Habs Fan in Edmonton got that one right. 

 

Would have been interesting to see how high he would of gone with the additional 36 games remaining. 

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44 minutes ago, Habsfan84 said:

We know the tiebreaker result now. Cole Caufield ended with 26 goals in game play plus went 2 for 3 on the shootout. His grand total will be locked in at 28 goals. Looks like Habs Fan in Edmonton got that one right. 

 

Would have been interesting to see how high he would of gone with the additional 36 games remaining. 


What a bummer way to win 😡

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