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 stated 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 night time of the common season — and with this being the ultimate energy rating of a stunning 2023-24 marketing campaign — we’re shining a light-weight on that one story that outlined the yr for all 32 golf equipment.
1. Dallas Stars (50-20-9) This yr demonstrated this squad is ready as much as contend in perpetuity. Dallas has eight guys who’ve netted 20 targets this yr, and no workforce can match that steadiness. It looks 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 yr — 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 improvement 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 acquired so dangerous, coach Rod Brind’Amour was calling out his membership throughout a sometimes benign in-game interview. Starting with a 4-1 win in Ottawa on Dec. 12, Carolina fully turned its season round and has one of the best factors proportion within the league (.750) since. Pyotr Kochetkov has a .924 save proportion since that night time 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 a good yr for a middle-six ahead. His ongoing brilliance within the absence of the retired Patrice Bergeron and David Krejci is the story of the yr in Boston. Additionally, what might be extra Bruin than the near-identical stat strains of their foundational goalie tandem: Jeremy Swayman has a .915 save proportion and a couple of.56 goals-against common in 43 video games, whereas Linus Ullmark has a .916 SP and a couple 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 successful their division regardless of beginning the season 2-9-1. The turnaround underneath 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 proportion when he stepped away from the workforce after Christmas and frolicked 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 proportion. He’s been a very completely different goalie in 2024.
7. Vancouver Canucks (48-22-9) No matter occurs with the Canucks — and something from a final-four playoff exhibiting to dropping in Spherical 1 feels in play — let’s not neglect what an unbelievable comeback yr 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 unattainable to disregard the comeback yr put collectively by Jonathan Drouin. The 2013 third-overall decide has principally 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 total season is a masterpiece, however he’s actually gone loopy because the Bolts have saved their season. Tampa was within the closing Japanese Convention wild-card spot on March 1 with an excellent 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 aim differential is plus-26.
10. Winnipeg Jets (48-24-6) It nonetheless actually looks 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 yr (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 robust division, that would have been a significant issue. However the Cats saved their heads nicely 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 yr 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, seemed 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. Perhaps 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 yr, and the Blues appear to bounce between successful 4 in a row and dropping 4 straight underneath interim coach Drew Bannister. They’re ending robust and have a slim probability at nudging into the playoffs, however it is a workforce in transition and it will likely be attention-grabbing 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 streak or dangerous streak. The distinction between the Islanders and Blues is New York ought to conclude the roller-coaster journey with a playoff spot.
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16. Pittsburgh Penguins (36-30-12) The story of the yr in Pittsburgh is coming face-to-face with exhausting realities. This workforce 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 previous pal Jake Guentzel — it looks 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 an increasing number of 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 yr, the Caps have a minus-40 aim 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 Crimson 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 side of this marketing campaign in Minny must 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) Perhaps the defining second of this robust yr in Seattle is occurring proper now. Shane Wright was referred to as up from the AHL initially of this month and has 4 targets in 4 video games. If he’s turning into the participant Seattle hoped it was getting at fourth general in 2022, subsequent yr will probably be higher than this one.
22. Buffalo Sabres (37-37-4) One other misplaced yr. There’s no different technique to put it.
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23. Arizona Coyotes (34-40-5) It’s turning into more and more believable that the story of the season within the desert is that this being the Coyotes’ closing season in Arizona.
24. Ottawa Senators (34-40-4) Via all of the unbelievable 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 workforce dotted with high-end ability 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 may wind up with 20 targets this season. The second-half improvement of the 2022 first-overall decide is the defining ingredient 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 via.
28. Philadelphia Flyers (36-32-11) John Tortorella referred to as the Flyers’ newest loss — a 9-3 setback to the Habs on Tuesday — “all-time low.” After spending about 70 video games wanting like a shock playoff workforce, 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 up to now 12 months.
29. Columbus Blue Jackets (26-41-12) The season began on an terrible be aware with the Mike Babcock fiasco, and by no means improved. You’d prefer to say the arrival of Adam Fantilli as a possible franchise centre stands out above the whole lot, however even he had his season minimize brief in late January by a calf laceration.
30. Chicago Blackhawks (23-50-5) Connor Bedard is right here and already demonstrating a capability to stay as much as the best of expectations. You’ll be able to’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 ways from being aggressive.
32. San Jose Sharks (18-51-9) The defining — and I might argue, encouraging — improvement in San Jose was totally 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 one of the best lottery odds, the street to restoration goes to get quite a bit shorter.
