Cam P

If this injury to Nichols is as serious as it sounds, the Bombers season just went up in flames.

This game feels like a classic "trap game" spot. Coming off a big win against an undefeated team, back to back the next 2 weeks against your biggest rival, and playing against a team that you should've lost to a couple weeks ago. Would not surprise me at all if the Bombers lost this one, but I obviously hope I'm wrong

Andrew Harris

Andrew Harris

I'll go with Brandon Zylstra again

I'll go with Brandon Zylstra

Jerome Messam

Andrew Harris

Messam

Duron Carter

I went 0-5 last year in this, so hoping to reverse that trend this year. Going to start off with good old reliable Jerome Messam

These would be the lines I would like to see come opening night Ehlers-Scheifele-Wheeler Laine-Little-Stafford Connor-Perrault-Armia Tanev-Lowry-Burmistrov Copp/Thorburn as your extra forwards. Dano and De Leo start in the AHL. Once Matthias comes back, Copp or Burmistrov probably the odd man out. Our defense is another story (and a tire fire in general without Trouba), but these 4 lines aren't the worst (although I think that 2nd line might be a bit of a possession black hole)

This. I'd even throw in a draft pick or something to sweeten the deal. If we can somehow get Ristolainen in this deal I'd be over the moon, but I can't see any world where Buffalo makes that deal.

I also picked the Riders, but that's simply because I'm so far back that I need to pick a couple longshots each week to hope to make up ground

Figures the week I finally move off Andrew Harris to Chris Williams, Williams has his worst game of the year. Going back to Andrew Harris this week to try and break my 0-9 going back to last year.