Start of 2023-24 Season: Where do owners stand?

[Avalanche GM (Travis)]

I polled every GM in Fantasy Hockey Live to see where their head is at going into the season.

They were asked:

1. What are your expectations for your team this season?

2. If you had to categorize your team in terms of trading status, which would you choose? Pure seller, conservative seller, wait and see, conservative buyer, and pure buyer.

3. What is your in real life Stanley Cup Prediction?

Below are the responses.

[Avalanche GM (Travis)]

Ducks GM (Tiger)

1. What are your expectations for your team this season?
- "My expectation this season for my team is to be extraordinarily mediocre, like 15-18 overall league-wide"

2. If you had to categorize your team in terms of trading status, which would you choose? Pure seller, conservative seller, wait and see, conservative buyer, and pure buyer.
- Conservative Buyer.

3. What is your in real life Stanley Cup Prediction?
- CGY over CAR in 6 games.

[Avalanche GM (Travis)]

Coyotes GM (Bill)

1. What are your expectations for your team this season?
- "The only questions for the Coyotes this year are: how much will they suck? how badly will they suck? will they ever NOT suck?" High aspirations in Arizona.

2. If you had to categorize your team in terms of trading status, which would you choose? Pure seller, conservative seller, wait and see, conservative buyer, and pure buyer.
- "Pure seller as I’m still 2-3 years from contention."

3. What is your in real life Stanley Cup Prediction?
- Whalers over the North Stars.