AV will be fired by the Canucks in the midst of an underachieving season.
NW division will be much more interesting this year. I think it will be like last year's Pacific division. The top 4 teams in the NW might be separated by 5 or 6 points, and the division winner might be 10 points behind the #1 seed.
I think Canucks will fall back towards the pack in the NW because there will be fewer divisional gimme's with Edmonton, Minny, Colorado all improving from the last couple of horrendous seasons, while the Canucks are not getting any better.
Vancouver is due to have an underachieving season. They should get the 3rd seed, but almost any of the five NW teams could steal the division from them.
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