Welcome to another edition of Dear Abbey. I don't give life advice like the real Dear Abby, but I do talk about hockey.

We're a few weeks away from NHL training camps opening up, and once players report, we'll have plenty to discuss, like positional battles, contract holdouts and salary cap gymnastics (especially considering there are so many teams over the cap right now). But for now, it's prime speculation season.

For the most part, we can look around the league at rosters and start to determine some potential line combinations. We already know of some players that will miss the start of the season with injuries and a few others that have already been ruled out for the season.

While rosters will be tweaked here and there throughout the season, it's pretty easy to identify which teams will be good (the Edmonton Oilers) and which will be bad (looking at you, Chicago Blackhawks). As for who is in the middle? We can speculate on that too.

We asked members of the B/R community for their playoff predictions: Who will be in and who will be out? It's been an eventful offseason, so let's see what the fans think.

Motoring into the Postseason

I think Detroit is going to make the playoffs. (@jcurran4)

Ottawa and Detroit in, Boston and Washington out. (@mfreeman2214)

The Detroit Red Wings are a popular pick to make the Stanley Cup Playoffs, as Steve Yzerman is ready to usher the team into the next phase of the rebuild.

The club has Calder Trophy-winning defenseman Moritz Seider and talented forward Lucas Raymond heading into their second NHL season, while veteran forwards Andrew Copp and David Perron and defenseman Ben Chiarot signed via free agency. The Red Wings also added goalie Ville Husso to tandem with Alex Nedeljkovic.

Derek Lalonde, a former assistant coach in Tampa Bay, is now behind the bench. The future is looking bright.

A reasonable expectation for this team is probably the playoffs. Playing competitive games late in the regular season would be good for the team, but with someone like Perron only on a two-year contract, it's probably safe to say that Detroit is aiming to be a postseason team.

You could maybe sell players like Copp on the potential for the team in two or three seasons, but the aggressive moves Yzerman made led me to believe that "playing in competitive games" isn't enough.

There is still plenty of money left for Yzerman to make another move, with much of the high-end talent still playing on entry-level contracts. Only four players are signed beyond the 2023-24 season: Robby Fabbri, Copp, Chiarot and Husso. That will change in the next few years with Seider, Raymond and Filip Hronek set to become restricted free agents, and Filip Zadina is currently one.

This is a team on the rise, but how quickly can they get to the top?