{"id":161274,"date":"2025-09-22T11:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/161274\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T11:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:11:11","slug":"nhl-season-previews-2025-26-projecting-each-team-from-worst-to-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/161274\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL season previews 2025-26: Projecting each team from worst to first"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to\u00a0The Athletic\u2019s 2025-26 edition of the team season previews, a deep dive into what to expect from each team for the upcoming season by Sean Gentille, Shayna Goldman, and Dom Luszczyszyn.<\/p>\n

Between Sept. 22 and Oct. 3, we\u2019re previewing all 32 NHL teams in order of predicted regular-season finish, according to Dom\u2019s model.<\/p>\n

Beyond the projected point total and playoff finish, you\u2019ll find a wildcard player that might have an unexpected impact on the forecast, a roster breakdown, one big question facing each team, and a best and worst-case scenario for each team.<\/p>\n

\u2022 How these projections work<\/a>
\u2022 Understanding projection uncertainty<\/a><\/p>\n

(Photo: Leila Devlin \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\"Connections:\"Connections:<\/p>\n

Sep 22, 2025<\/p>\n

Connections: Sports Edition<\/p>\n

Spot the pattern. Connect the terms<\/p>\n

Find the hidden link between sports terms<\/p>\n

Play today’s puzzle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to\u00a0The Athletic\u2019s 2025-26 edition of the team season previews, a deep dive into what to expect from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-161274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}