Central:
Blues
Wild
Jets
Predators (WC)
Avalanche (WC)
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Stars
Hawks
Pacific:
Kings
Ducks
Flames
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Sharks
Canucks
Oilers
Coyotes
The Kings got totally messed up by losing Vonyov at the start of last year.
Best top 6 forwards: Kopitar, Carter, Gaborik, Lucic, Brown and Toffolli
Best D-man Doughty and best goalie Quick.
The Ducks lost Belesky, Palmeri and Beauchimin .. Hagelin is a good fill in but losing their #1 D-man and filling in with Bieksa???
Minnesota was the best team after they got Dubynk...
Everything went right for the Preds last year... Their top-4 D-men missed a total of 7 games until Weber goes out in the playoffs and they lose 3 out of 4 without him.
The Avs are going to be better without RoR thinking he is their #1C. Duschene, Landeskog and Mackinnon. Iginla will finally get a chance to be the #2RW. The Avs with Barrie, Johnson, Beauchemin have their best top-3 D-men in the last decade and then they have Zaradov and Gormley as 4/5.
Flames make a return to the playoffs just based on getting Hamilton.... BUT it might really hurt not having Brodie at the start and the broken hand can really limit how good he will be when he gets back.
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