Why Making Predictions Now are Premature!

1) With all due respect to the many fellow bloggers who have already come out with their preseason predictions we at FAUXRUMORS feel it is foolish to make such comments at this early time frame. Why?

• Well, the most important reason is that rosters are far from set. As we write this 6 teams are OVER the salary cap of 56 or so million, and another 4 teams are perilously close, so significant roster moves are likely. As we saw quite clearly with the Mezsaros 'trade', rosters are far from set. In fact an East asst GM told us to not be surprised to see an unprecedented number of moves prior to the drop of the puck in Europe in October



• Several significant free agents have yet to decide on their team/possible retirement. Players such as Joe Sakic who recently announced his decision and and ofcourse Mats Sundin,Teemu Selanne, Peter Forsberg, etc who have yet to make their decision could alter the landscape significant enough to alter predictions

2) We at FR usually like to wait until late September/early October before coming out with our predictions. No, not to use others' analysis to assist us, but so we have as much of the known facts to be able to give our readers the best possible preseason predictions. By that late date rosters will be pretty much set, and we can use some early trends that are sometimes spotted in the preseason.

Post Script: Happy Labour Day folks and more importantly, all our prayers going to the folks on the gulf coast as they endure the wrath of Gustov!