Hurricanes will be looking for more goals from this new group than what was scored last season.
Last summer, I attempted to compile a projection of how many goals I thought the present roster would score. This was before the Hurricanes acquired Kris Versteeg and Joakim Nordstrom, who contributed about 20 goals between them.
I estimated a total of 222 "goals for" and the team actually scored 198, which left me woefully short of my lofty expectations. Despite my shortcomings, I thought I would give this another try.
First of all, let's take a look at last year's projections and see where I went wrong.