If you were to try and predict the Anaheim Ducks' leader scorers and their point totals before last season, your predictions would have likely been entirely off the mark.
Unless you had Teemu Selanne at number one breaking 65 points, Ryan Getzlaf stalling out at 11 goals, and Corey Perry at only 60 points after a 98 point league MVP season the year before, than your predictions wouldn't be worth a hill of beans.
Therefore, it goes without saying that trying to predict the top seven anything of a team is spotty at best. If you throw in another stat, like point totals for that top seven, it gets even more unreliable. Then again, that's the beauty of the world of sports commentary; it can be interesting, fun, engaging and completely wrong all at the same time.
Though I'm honestly going to give this my best shot. I want to take a reasonable look at Anaheim's team and make a sensible prediction about who will be their top seven scorers, and how many points each of those players will obtain during the 2012-2013 season.
An article like this is where the comments section comes in really handy. I welcome all opinions, thoughts and disagreements. L ...
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Predicting the Anaheim Ducks’ Top 7 Scorers in 2012
August 10th, 2012 by Bobby Kittleberger Leave a reply »
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