Projected Standings:
1. Vancouver Canucks
2. Minnesota Wild
3. Colorado Avalanche
4. Edmonton Oilers
5. Calgary Flames
Vancouver lost Ehrhoff to big dollars in free agency, Minnesota acquired Heatley and Setoguchi, Colorado cleaned out their crease and added Varlamov and Giguere, Edmonton continued their patient rebuild, and in Calgary they said its Feaster, but it seems more like famine.
1. Vancouver Canucks
Key Off-Season Acquisitions: Marco Sturm
Key Off-Season Losses: Christian Ehrhoff and Raffi Torres
Top Prospects: Cody Hodgson and Jordan Schoeder
Fantasy Sleeper: Sami Salo
Top 9
DSedin - HSedin - Burrows
Raymond (IR) - Kesler - Samuelsson
Higgins - Malhotra - Hansen
Top 4 Defencemen
Edler - Salo
Hamhuis - Bieksa
2. Minnesota Wild
Key Off-Season Acquisitions: Dany Heatley and Devin Setoguchi
Key Off-Season Losses: Brent Burns, Andrew Brunette, Martin Havlat, and Jose Theodore
Top Prospects: Mikael Granlund, Marco Scandella, Matt Hackett, Charlie Coyle, and Zack Phillips
Fantasy Sleeper: Pierre-Marc Bouchard
Top 9
Bouchard - Koivu - Heatley
Latendresse - Cullen - Setoguchi
Powe - Brodziak - Clutterbuck
Top 4 Defencemen
Zanon - Lundin
Zidlicky - Schultz
3. Colorado Avalanche
Key Off-Season Acquisitions: Semyon Varlamov, Jean-Sebastian Giguere, Jan Hejda and Shane O'Brien
Key Off-Season Losses: Tomas Fleischmann, Brian Elliott, and John-Michael Liles
Top Prospects: Gabriel Landeskog, Joey Hishon, Stefan Elliott
Fantasy Sleeper: Peter Mueller
Top 9
Mueller - Duchene - Hejduk
Landeskog - Stastny - Jones
Galiardi - O'Reilley - Hishon
Top 4 Defencemen
EJohnson - Hejda
Quincey - O'Byrne
4. Edmonton Oilers
Key Off-Season Acquisitions: Ryan Smyth, Eric Belanger and Andy Sutton
Key Off-Season Losses: Kurtis Foster and Andrew Cogliano
Top Prospects: Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Teemu Hartikainen, Martin Marincin
Fantasy Sleeper: Linus Omark
Top 9
Smyth - Gagner - Hemsky
Hall - Horcoff - Eberle
Paajarvi - Belanger - Omark
Top 4 Defencemen
Whitney - Gilbert
Smid - Barker
5. Calgary Flames
Key Off-Season Acquisitions: Chris Butler
Key Off-Season Losses: Robyn Regehr and Adam Pardy
Top Prospects: Sven Bartschi
Fantasy Sleeper: Rene Bourque
Top 9
Tanguay - Langkow - Iginla
Glencross - Jokinen - Bourque
Backlund - Morrison - Moss
Top 4 Defencemen
Giordano - Bouwmeester
Babchuk - Sarich
-->> Up next, the Pacific Division: Sharks, Kings, Ducks, Coyotes, and Stars.
Links:
Atlantic Division Preview (8.4.11)
Northeast Division Preview (8.7.11)
Southeast Division Preview (8.10.11)
Central Division Preview (8.14.11)
Poll
Which teams will finish at the bottom of the Northwest?
Minnesota and Edmonton (8 votes)
Minnesota and Calgary (6 votes)
Minnesota and Colorado (2 votes)
Colorado and Edmonton (24 votes)
Colorado and Calgary (14 votes)
Edmonton and Calgary (27 votes)
81 total votes


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