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2021-22 NHL season picks: Stanley Cup, division winners and awards

ESPN.com | October 12, 2021

Related Topics: Stanley Cup, Boston Bruins, Florida Panthers, Washington Capitals, Toronto Maple Leafs, Tampa Bay Lightning, Nathan MacKinnon, Auston Matthews, Aleksander Barkov Jr., Connor McDavid

The 2021-22 NHL season is set to begin on Tuesday night with a doubleheader on ESPN and ESPN+, but we're looking beyond just those two matchups.

Will the Lightning pull off the three-peat? How well will the Kraken do in their first season? And who will take home all of the individual hardware?

We've gathered our cross-platform ESPN hockey family together to predict the winners of each division, along with the Stanley Cup champion and players who will win all of the major awards.

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Best bets for the 2021-22 season

Jump ahead:
Atlantic | Metropolitan
Central | Pacific | Cup
Hart | Ross | Richard
Norris | Vezina | Calder

Atlantic Division

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