It’s generally better to live your life by listening and reading what people much smarter than you have to say about a topic you’re interested in, so that’s what I’m going to do here. I don’t have the coding or mathematic expertise to really delve into what each player might do in the next 56 regular season games, or where the team will be in the standings after said games, so let’s just point at a couple of very intelligent hockey people and go, “oh yeah, I agree, that looks good, wow.”
You can certainly disagree with these predictions, after all, hockey is a weird and unpredictable sport, but there are multiple consistent factors that are taken into consideration.