Let’s take a look back at how bad our NHL season predictions were

Happy Independence Day, American readers!

Speaking of: The NHL season ended a couple weeks ago. By now, our panel of writers must be celebrating their freedom from the predictions they made back in October.

That was intentional. I wanted to lull them into a false sense of security.

Because now, without further ado, it is time to crown an SB Nation NHL predictions champion.

Best round: Ari and Kyle both come away with the early lead by nailing three picks. They both pretty much had the top four right.

Worst round: Satchel, who had the top four right but in the wrong order and swung and missed on the last four spots.

Pick everyone got wrong: Turns out the Flyers are better than a sixth-place team! Who knew!

Pick most got right: Capitals winning the division.

Most ridiculous prediction: Most of us had Columbus finishing fifth. Whoops.

Also, the robot is tied for third. This is not a good start.

Best round: Brendan and Satchel can thank the Red Wings, Sabres and Maple Leafs for their second-round comeback.

Worst round: Travis, Steph, Scott and Ari all tied the robot with one. Shame.

Pick everyone got wrong: Every single one of us underestimated the Panthers and overestimated the Canadiens.

Pick most got right: lol leafs

Most ridiculous prediction: Pretty much anything the robot picked.

Best round: Uh. No one? This was terrible, guys. Technically Steph and Travis had the best with three.

Worst round: Satchel, Brendan, Ari and the robot all struck out and got tossed for arguing balls and strikes.

Pick everyone got wrong: Apparently the Stars were pretty good!

Pick most got right: Blackhawks in third.

Most ridiculous predictions: Where do I start? The robot had the defending champs in last. Kyle had the eventual division champs in last. All of us overrated the Wild.

Best round: All right. Much better. Scott, Steph and Satchel nailed three of their picks.

Worst round: Starting to give up hope for the robot.

Pick everyone got wrong: Apologies to the Arizona Coyotes and the Phoenix community for our universal doubt.

Pick most got right: Ducks! Though if you had asked us if they’d fire their coach ...

Most ridiculous predictions: BUT THIS WAS THE OILERS’ YEAR

Best round: Congrats to Ari for the only correct Cup prediction! Also ...

Worst round: ... the only points in this round. Whoops.

Pick everyone got wrong: Nobody thought the Sharks would come out of the West.

Pick most got right: well

Most ridiculous predictions: The robot, again, with the Avalanche in the Cup Final. But Satchel and the Canadiens was arguably worse. Sorry, Satchel.

We’ll change things up a bit here with the points system to give myself a chance to win to make things interesting.

If someone guessed one of the three finalists correctly, they earn a point. If they guessed the winner correctly, they get two points.

Best round: Ari cleans up again. Yeesh. She whiffed on only Norris and Vezina. Other than that, points across the board.

Worst round: *clears throat awkwardly*

Dan is great, though. You should follow him on Twitter. Really great guy.

Pick everyone got wrong: Patrick Kane didn’t even sniff our predictions. It’s almost like we made these after a huge off-ice incident and his status was in question.

Pick most got right: Huh. I wonder if pro hockey writers vote for the same three guys for the Selke every year. Or something.

Most ridiculous predictions: All of these were reasonable!

Ari is our 2015-16 SB Nation NHL predictions champion! Go send her pictures of shiny trophies on Twitter.