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This has been fairly the season.
From a league-wide perspective, the offensive exploits of Nikita Kucherov, Nathan MacKinnon and Connor McDavid — all already previous the 130-point barrier — and Auston Matthews’ pursuit of 70 targets have rightly dominated headlines.
Clearly, these gamers are on the centre of what’s being written and mentioned about their groups.
However — whether or not good or dangerous — each squad has a narrative of the season.
With one week to go till the ultimate evening of the common season — and with this being the ultimate energy rating of a blinding 2023-24 marketing campaign — we’re shining a lightweight on that one story that outlined the 12 months for all 32 golf equipment.
1. Dallas Stars (50-20-9) This 12 months demonstrated this squad is ready as much as contend in perpetuity. Dallas has eight guys who’ve netted 20 targets this 12 months, and no group can match that stability. It appears like a era of franchise-defining gamers simply landed in Texas (Miro Heiskanen, Jason Robertson, Jake Oettinger) and we’ve already seen the following wave arrive (Wyatt Johnston, Thomas Harley, Logan Stankoven).
2. New York Rangers (53-22-4) Artemi Panarin’s profession 12 months — 46 targets, 116 factors — would land him squarely within the MVP race in a season when the highest guys weren’t tearing their technique to 140 factors. The large growth on Broadway, although, is perhaps the 27-goal breakout by 2020 first-overall decide Alexis Lafreniere.
3. Carolina Hurricanes (50-22-7) The Canes scuffled alongside to a 14-12-1 file out of the gate. It received so dangerous, coach Rod Brind’Amour was calling out his membership throughout a usually benign in-game interview. Starting with a 4-1 win in Ottawa on Dec. 12, Carolina fully turned its season round and has the perfect factors share within the league (.750) since. Pyotr Kochetkov has a .924 save share since that evening and Sebastian Aho — who scored two of the 4 targets — has 65 factors in 52 video games.
4. Boston Bruins (46-18-5) David Pastrnak has 41 extra factors (107) than the following closest Bruin (66 by Brad Marchand). A 41-point season is an honest 12 months for a middle-six ahead. His ongoing brilliance within the absence of the retired Patrice Bergeron and David Krejci is the story of the 12 months in Boston. Additionally, what may very well be extra Bruin than the near-identical stat strains of their foundational goalie tandem: Jeremy Swayman has a .915 save share and a pair of.56 goals-against common in 43 video games, whereas Linus Ullmark has a .916 SP and a pair of.55 GAA in 38 outings.
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5. Edmonton Oilers (48-24-5) The Oilers nonetheless have an out of doors shot at profitable their division regardless of beginning the season 2-9-1. The turnaround beneath new coach Kris Knoblauch is the story of the season in Northern Alberta.
6. Toronto Maple Leafs (46-23-9) Auston Matthews’ 66 targets is already probably the most we’ve seen from anyone since Mario Lemieux popped 69 in 1995-96. Low-key, the Ilya Samsonov comeback has been one thing else, too. The Russian had an .862 save share when he stepped away from the group after Christmas and hung out with the AHL’s Toronto Marlies whereas getting a psychological well being reset. Since Jan. 21, Samsonov has an 18-3-1 file with a .915 save share. He’s been a totally completely different goalie in 2024.
7. Vancouver Canucks (48-22-9) No matter occurs with the Canucks — and something from a final-four playoff displaying to shedding in Spherical 1 feels in play — let’s not neglect what an unbelievable comeback 12 months this was for the franchise, highlighted by Quinn Hughes’ Norris-level play and the very fact Elias Pettersson has signed on to be the stud No. 1 C for the following decade.
8. Colorado Avalanche (49-24-6) Nathan MacKinnon’s Hart-worthy season is the headliner. However, more and more, it’s inconceivable to disregard the comeback 12 months put collectively by Jonathan Drouin. The 2013 third-overall decide has mainly been a point-per-game participant within the second half and has 9 targets and 24 factors in his previous 19 outings.
9. Tampa Bay Lightning (44-27-7) Kucherov’s whole season is a masterpiece, however he’s actually gone loopy because the Bolts have saved their season. Tampa was within the last Jap Convention wild-card spot on March 1 with a fair goal-differential. Since then, Tampa is 12-3-1, thanks largely to Kucherov averaging 2.19 factors per recreation — higher than everyone, together with MacKinnon and McDavid — in that point. Tampa’s purpose differential is plus-26.
10. Winnipeg Jets (48-24-6) It nonetheless actually appears like the massive story was signing Connor Hellebuyck and Mark Scheifele to twin extensions someday earlier than the season started. How completely different would this feel-good 12 months (even with a second-half stumble) appear if even a kind of contract conditions had been hanging over the Jets’ heads?
11. Florida Panthers (49-24-6) The Panthers have been with out their prime two defencemen — Brandon Montour and Aaron Ekblad — till Nov. 17. Coming off an extended Cup run and competing in a really powerful division, that might have been a major problem. However the Cats stored their heads effectively above water, then surged when these two returned. Even with an prolonged scuffle (4-7-2 of their previous 13), Florida ought to open the playoffs with home-ice benefit. That didn’t really feel like something near a certainty when it started the 12 months shorthanded on the blue.
12. Nashville Predators (45-29-5) A 16-0-2 stretch from mid-February to early March has outlined Nashville’s first season with Barry Trotz on the hockey operations helm and Andrew Brunette behind the bench. The Preds have already locked down a playoff spot that, at completely different occasions within the season, regarded something however assured.
13. Los Angeles Kings (41-26-11) Buying Pierre-Luc Dubois final summer time was the newest in a sequence of all-in strikes by the Kings, and it simply flat-out has not labored. Possibly Dubois can flip the script within the playoffs.
14. St. Louis Blues (42-32-5) Craig Berube — the one coach to win a Cup in franchise historical past — was axed this 12 months, and the Blues appear to bounce between profitable 4 in a row and shedding 4 straight beneath interim coach Drew Bannister. They’re ending robust and have a slim likelihood at nudging into the playoffs, however this can be a group in transition and will probably be fascinating to see the place GM Doug Armstrong guides issues in the summertime.
15. New York Islanders (36-27-15) See above. The Isles tapped Patrick Roy in-season to be the brand new bench boss, and each time you search for, they appear to both be on a superb streak or dangerous streak. The distinction between the Islanders and Blues is New York ought to conclude the roller-coaster experience with a playoff spot.
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16. Pittsburgh Penguins (36-30-12) The story of the 12 months in Pittsburgh is coming face-to-face with exhausting realities. This group was a deadline vendor a month in the past. Even when Sidney Crosby efficiently wills the Pens into the playoffs — the place, hilariously, they might conceivably face outdated good friend Jake Guentzel — it appears like Pittsburgh has handed the purpose of no return when it comes to constructing a real contender round Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang.
17. Vegas Golden Knights (42-28-8) Accidents to star gamers and all-in strikes have outlined this season in Vegas. However increasingly it looks like the defending champs will get an extended summer time of restoration to heal up and be again as robust as ever within the fall.
18. Washington Capitals (37-30-11) Single weirdest season within the league? Alex Ovechkin didn’t rating for half a 12 months, the Caps have a minus-40 purpose differential (the 5 worse groups are legit dreaming of a lottery win) and Charlie Lindgren grew to become an NHL starter at age 30. But, right here they’re, clinging to the ultimate playoff berth within the East.
19. Detroit Purple Wings (38-32-8) Let’s face it, if the Wings discover a technique to get in and lose in 4 straight Spherical 1 video games, the story of the season will nonetheless be progress. In the event that they don’t, it’s going to look like they’re caught within the mud.
20. Minnesota Wild (37-32-9) Much more than the frustration of lacking the post-season, the defining facet of this marketing campaign in Minny needs to be the emergence of rookie D-man Brock Faber. The Wild now have a right-shot stud who grew up within the state able to anchor the blueline for the following dozen years.
21. Seattle Kraken (33-31-13) Possibly the defining second of this powerful 12 months in Seattle is going on proper now. Shane Wright was known as up from the AHL in the beginning of this month and has 4 targets in 4 video games. If he’s changing into the participant Seattle hoped it was getting at fourth total in 2022, subsequent 12 months will likely be higher than this one.
22. Buffalo Sabres (37-37-4) One other misplaced 12 months. There’s no different technique to put it.
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23. Arizona Coyotes (34-40-5) It’s changing into more and more believable that the story of the season within the desert is that this being the Coyotes’ last season in Arizona.
24. Ottawa Senators (34-40-4) Via all of the unimaginable noise — a coach and GM being axed, a younger participant getting hit with a 41-game suspension for gambling-related actions — the story stays a group dotted with high-end talent that may’t cease spinning its wheels.
25. New Jersey Devils (37-37-5) A real season from hell. The Devils have been blasted with accidents to prime guys, and a season that started with justifiable perception they might win the division and make playoff progress delivered solely disappointment after disappointment.
26. Montreal Canadiens (30-36-12) After scoring two targets in his first 31 video games, Juraj Slafkovsky might wind up with 20 targets this season. The second-half growth of the 2022 first-overall decide is the defining aspect of the season for a rebuilding squad.
27. Calgary Flames (35-37-5) Simply as we suspected, the promoting of 4 pending-UFAs — Nikita Zadorov, Elias Lindholm, Chris Tanev and Noah Hanifin — outlined Calgary’s season. What we didn’t see coming was the rupture with franchise goalie Jacob Markstrom when he was understandably angered after a possible commerce with New Jersey fell by way of.
28. Philadelphia Flyers (36-32-11) John Tortorella known as the Flyers’ newest loss — a 9-3 setback to the Habs on Tuesday — “all-time low.” After spending about 70 video games trying like a shock playoff group, the Flyers have come fully unglued and now determine to be hit with the double crappy whammy of lacking the post-season, whereas nonetheless not drafting on the prime of the board. That’s not nice for a franchise that was fairly open about its intentions to fully rebuild prior to now 12 months.
29. Columbus Blue Jackets (26-41-12) The season began on an terrible word with the Mike Babcock fiasco, and by no means improved. You’d wish to say the arrival of Adam Fantilli as a possible franchise centre stands out above every little thing, however even he had his season reduce quick in late January by a calf laceration.
30. Chicago Blackhawks (23-50-5) Connor Bedard is right here and already demonstrating a capability to dwell as much as the very best of expectations. You may’t ask for something extra for those who’re a Hawks fan.
31. Anaheim Geese (26-48-5) The takeaway from the season in Southern California is, even with all of the intriguing younger expertise, the Geese are nonetheless clearly a long way from being aggressive.
32. San Jose Sharks (18-51-9) The defining — and I’d argue, encouraging — growth in San Jose was absolutely leaning right into a full rebuild by buying and selling Tomas Hertl on the deadline. It’s an extended street to hoe, but when the Sharks money in on having the perfect lottery odds, the street to restoration goes to get lots shorter.
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