Carolina Hurricanes Projections

The season began yesterday but I forgot to post a full recap of the projections I have for this year's taem. There's a few players who I didn't get to post my in-depth projections for so I'm including them in here too. I'm only including players who began the year on the team because doing everyone really isn't feasible at the moment.

Forwards

Player	GP	G	A	Pts
Eric Staal	80	32	47	79
Jeff Skinner	79	28	31	59
Tuomo Ruutu	75	17	27	44
Jussi Jokinen	77	20	26	46
Alexei Ponikarovsky	70	14	20	34
Chad LaRose	74	13	16	29
Anthony Stewart	73	10	17	27
Brandon Sutter	78	14	19	33
Jiri Tlusty	51	5	13	18
Patrick Dwyer	73	7	9	16
Tim Brent	80	8	11	18
Zac Dalpe	75	16	22	38

It's pretty similar to last season with Staal and Sknner being the only two to crack 50+ points but I have Jokinen scoring 20 goals. I also have Ponikarovsky with a bounce-back season now that he may get top-six minutes. Of course, I made these projections assuming they would be on different lines than they were yesterday so this is all subject to change.

Defensemen

I didn't make a projection for Faulk or Murphy, unfortunately.

Player	GP	G	A	Pts
Joni Pitkanen	71	6	30	36
Tim Gleason	69	3	12	15
Jamie McBain	73	6	23	29
Tomas Kaberle	80	5	38	43
Jay Harrison	70	2	11	13
Derek Joslin	51	3	9	12

McBain's numbers will probably be down because of spending more nights in the press-box than I thought he would. Same goes for Joslin. Overall, I feel that these are pretty reachable expectations. I have Pitkanen slightly improving and Kaberle having a slightly worse year, but those 43 points will be pretty good for Carolina given the production they had on their blue-line last year.

Overall, I have Carolina's "main" roster scoring 209 goals, which really isn't that good but it could go up if the AHL call-ups produce during their time here. Let's hope that someone else up front has a break-out season because the numbers here aren't that optimistic.