Happy Monday. Welcome into the CHGO Blackhawks podcast. I'm Jay Zawoski. That's Greg Boyson. That's Mario

Tiribati, who got rocked in his hockey game last night and is very, very sore. We'll spray some icy hot on them. We'll get through the show. Thanks for being with us. Yeah, icy hot's good for broken ribs. Take a bath in it. There you go. We're going to make all of our predictions today. So a lot to get to, not a lot of time to do it. So we're going to get right to things before we do. Please do us a favor and hit that like button for us. Make sure you are subscribed to our YouTube as well. And if you're listening on your favorite podcast app, thank you. Be sure to make sure you're following and leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Here's what we're going to cover today. division predictions from top to bottom we're going to

give you our east and west playoff teams our stanley cup final our stanley cup champions some black hawks

overs and unders and some postseason awards so let's start right off with our central division

predictions i'm to go top to bottom here in a central.

I'm picking the Dallas Stars to win the Central Division.

I have in my notes here, I think they're going to go wire to wire first place.

I think that they are on a mission this year.

And having Miko Ratonin for a full season, that will help them.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's a good thing. It won't hurt.

Next up, I have Colorado. In second, I think Colorado is starting to realize what we told our friends at DNVR a couple years ago. Don't assume you're going to be the best team in hockey for a

decade because it doesn't always work that way. I think Colorado might have a sense of urgency this year that we haven't seen in seasons

past.

I've got Winnipeg, very deep, very strong.

Yes, they lose Nikolai Eilers, but they're still a really good team.

And I do think Jonathan Taves is going to have not a huge role, but an important

middle-sized role for Jonathan Taves.

I have the Minnesota Wild, the Utah Mammoth, Nashville, St. Louis, and Chicago rounding out the bottom.

I think Nashville is going to have a bit of a bounceback.

They're not going to be the complete train wreck they were last year, but still not a playoff team, not a wild car team in my mind.

All right.

Uh, central division, my top, uh, three, I think are the same.

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