The Western Conference Wild Card Clusterfuck
By the 27GP mark; a third of the NHL szn schedule; it looked like you could Western Conference lock in the division top three for both the Central and Pacific division. On the podcast – I began calling them the Elite 6. Vegas, Los Angeles, Colorado, Dallas – early Cup prediction darlings were included. Two Canadian surprises Vancouver and Winnipeg by that point proved their starts would look sustainable. After was a drop off into a large middle clusterfuck of a group - that could at best nab one of the two of the wild card spots. At inception; based on most pundit predictions if you were to flip Edmonton with Vancouver and Minnesota with Winnipeg; it would have been an exactly what everyone expected model. In the Pacific, after the 18GP pothole Edmonton drilled. It was under a new coach Kris Knoblauch; the oil turned it around as they spill onto a current 16-game win streak. However; its LA, who we should not forget had an NHL record road win streak to start went cold over the last...