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Talk to any accepted manager, drillmaster or amateur and they'll acquaint you this about today's NHL: There has never been added parity. Any aggregation can win on any accustomed night (and gone are the nights area you can amphitheater a date on the agenda and agenda yourself for an accessible win). Halfway through the season, there has already been bristles improvement wins by four goals or added -- the best we've credible aback the '80s. We've credible nine three-goal improvement wins action in the third aeon alone, which is the best in NHL history through 638 alliance games.

So it's not a abruptness that best teams still anchorage achievement to accomplish the playoffs. And as we apperceive in the NHL, already you're in, you consistently accept a adventitious to accomplish some noise. Blame the St. Louis Blues for giving alike the basal feeders added hope. On Jan. 2 aftermost season, St. Louis was in aftermost abode in the NHL and 11 credibility alfresco the playoff picture. We all apperceive how that concluded up.

So which aggregation has a adventitious of repeating that success this season? Here's how teams currently not cool defended in a playoff position assemblage up, in four altered tiers.

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Los Angeles KingsAnaheim DucksNew Jersey DevilsDetroit Red WingsOttawa Senators

Sure, three of these teams (Ottawa, New Jersey, Detroit) are area the Blues were aftermost season: 11 credibility or added out of a playoff spot. But all of these teams accept article in common: they're all-embracing a adolescence movement, but additionally absent of a catchbasin and the anticipation of drafting Alexis Lafreniere No. 1 all-embracing in June.

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The Senators accept outperformed expectations a bit and attending abundant added aggressive this division beneath DJ Smith. Ottawa has a few alone ablaze spots on a agenda about defective aptitude (Jean-Gabriel Pageau and Anthony Duclair are accepting career years, while Thomas Chabot is the new NHL ironman, arch the alliance by skating added than 26 account per game). The Devils, meanwhile, flopped afterwards a summer of hoopla. The abstraction that Jack Hughes, P.K. Subban and Taylor Hall could aggregation up for a Stanley Cup has bound vanished, and in return, admirers are acquisitive the apple-pie doesn't accept to alpha from blemish again. The Red Wings, in Steve Yzerman's aboriginal division as GM, attending like they accept no admiration to be competitive, animating for a continued play. The Kings cut their losses on Ilya Kovalchuk, owning up to a abridgement of self-awareness aback they active him in summer 2018. The Ducks accept credible some flashes beneath the advice of new drillmaster Dallas Eakins, but abridgement the bendability to go on a agrarian run.

None of these teams will accomplish the playoffs.

New York RangersMontreal CanadiensChicago Blackhawks

Hey, it's still accessible for any of these teams to accomplish the playoffs, but they accept to get their act calm fast.

The Canadiens are a abstract team. They looked appropriate for a amplitude this fall, but injuries accumulated up quickly. And already they said Brendan Gallagher (second on the aggregation in goals) was out indefinitely with a concussion, GM Marc Bergevin was baited into signing Ilya Kovalchuk for the blow of the season. It's a low-risk move because that it's a two-way accord for the alliance minimum, but Kovalchuk will accept to actualization a lot added than he did in Los Angeles for it to be an appulse signing.

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The Rangers are on the upswing, and are apparently addition year abroad from actively blame for a playoff spot. They accept a lot of adolescent players on the agenda transitioning to the NHL (No. 2 aces Kaapo Kakko, especially, needs to acquisition his way) and a collection arresting group, which at times has been adamantine to watch. However, the offseason signing of Artemi Panarin has been alike bigger than imagined, and the aliment man has sparked this aggregation to several wins. The barter borderline will be telling, and if the Rangers address Chris Kreider to one of abounding appear suitors, the aperture to the 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs is acceptable shut.

As for the Blackhawks, they've accepted they can comedy top-level hockey for stretches, and the goaltending bike of Corey Crawford and (especially) Robin Lehner has compensated for their bad dejected line. Patrick Kane is still a superstar. But the injuries to key players (Brandon Saad and Calvin de Haan amid them) accept prevented this aggregation from award a stride, and this is acceptable a alteration division as affluence of adolescent players get NHL reps.

Columbus Dejected JacketsBuffalo SabresMinnesota WildPhiladelphia FlyersEdmonton Oilers

Here's area things get interesting. These teams accept some apparatus of playoff teams. For the Oilers and Sabres, they accept aristocratic superstars (Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl and Jack Eichel) absolutely boring their less-talented teammates to wins. Both teams are similar: they allegation goaltending to authority up to accept any adventitious and they additionally ability allegation to access scoring advice at the deadline.

The Flyers and Dejected Jackets accept been bedfast by injuries. But there are abundant adept players and ascendance aptitude on both rosters to bullwork out wins aback it affairs bottomward the stretch. If either aggregation gets in, they ability comedy addle-brain to higher-seeded teams and accept adolescent goaltenders -- Joonas Korpisalo, aback he's advantageous again, and Carter Hart -- who can get aloof as hot as Jordan Binnington did aftermost spring.

As for the Wild? They're blockage afloat in the aggressive Central Division and accept fabricated up cogent arena afterwards a alarming start. If they can abutting out the approved division with a playoff spot, they could accomplish babble because the adept aptitude on this roster.

Florida PanthersCalgary FlamesNashville PredatorsSan Jose SharksWinnipeg Jets

Here are the teams that contour best analogously to aftermost season's Blues. Two (the Sharks and Flames) accept already undergone a apprenticeship change -- and let's agenda that two of the accomplished four Stanley Cup champs switched coaches midseason.

San Jose is everyman in the standings of this group, but conceivably the best alarming because how we rated them entering the season. It feels like the accident of Joe Pavelski (and alike Joonas Donskoi) was underestimated, and of course, goaltending has been the abscessed spot. The Sharks additionally haven't looked abundant bigger aback Bob Boughner took over for Peter DeBoer a ages ago. But all it takes is one continued acceptable band and they're appropriate aback in the mix. It helps that the Pacific Division isn't as accomplished as the Central.

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The Flames, who had the best almanac in the Western Appointment aftermost season, best things up aback their apprenticeship change, activity 11-5-1 with Geoff Ward abaft the bench. (Sounds agnate to aftermost season's Blues). Calgary has been buoyed by a decidedly acceptable David Rittich in net, admitting the aggregation ability allegation to administer his workload bottomward the stretch. The Flames absolutely allegation added out of their best abhorrent players, Johnny Gaudreau and Sean Monahan. If either (or both) of those guys get hot, the Flames could be a accurate threat.

The Panthers did aggregate they could this offseason to advance their affairs at a playoff berth. Besides hiring assorted Cup champ Joel Quenneville as coach, they splurged on Sergei Bobrovsky and added veterans with playoff acquaintance for depth: Noel Acciari, Brett Connolly and Anton Stralman. Everyone is cat-and-mouse for Bobrovksy to about-face a corner, and it's absolutely not too backward (either for this season, or the absoluteness of his contract). It all could appear calm for Florida.

In the Central Division, the Jets accept outperformed expectations (especially with the about-face on the dejected line) and the Predators accept underperformed (Nashville's goaltending has been decidedly undependable). But there's abundant basal aptitude on either aggregation to absolutely go on a run, a la the Blues.

Calder Trophy admired Cale Makar alternate from his aboriginal abrasion as a pro, an eight-game absence due to an upper-body injury, believed to be his larboard shoulder. And article abnormal happened in his additional bold back: he committed a penalty. It was Makar's aboriginal amends as an NHL player; he fabricated it to Bold 31 afterwards one. "It was a impaired one, too," Samuel Girard said. "Delay of game, aloof bogie over the glass. That sucks aback it happens like that."

I accept a affection advancing anon on Makar, and it's bright aloof how admired he is by his teammates. "He's a apple-pie player, but what I adulation about Cale is he's not abashed to get his adenoids dirty, too," Nazem Kadri said. "He can lay a big hit or accept some concrete confrontation. He's not cheap; he'll comedy by the rules. But he's tougher out there than you think."

Canada won the gold badge in the IIHF World Junior Championships, advancing aback to amaze Russia, 4-3. All eyes were on the acceptable No. 1 aces in the accessible draft, Alexis Lafreniere. I asked Chris Peters, who was onsite in Ostrava, to epitomize Lafreniere's clash and what it agency for the youngster's NHL future:

"Alexis Lafreniere has been ascendant all division in QMJHL play, but that was expected. All eyes were on him for this World Juniors event, and he delivered in the bigger way possible. Despite alone arena in bristles games, missing two absolutely and best of the preliminary-round antagonism adjoin Russia due to an credible knee injury, Lafreniere accomplished additional on Canada with 10 points. He was alleged the tournament's best forward, All-Star and the MVP as alleged by the media, capping his achievement with two assists in the gold-medal game. There were about a bisected dozen added top draft-eligible players in the tournament, including three on Lafreniere's own team, but he stood head-and-shoulders aloft the rest.

"From the moment the clash started, with Lafreniere recording four credibility in Canada's improvement win over the United States, including the late, game-winning goal, the 18-year-old addition took allegation and never looked back. His skill, animality and hockey IQ were all NHL-caliber as he led Canada to its aboriginal gold on European clay aback 2008. It was one heck of a signature moment in the bigger division of his adolescent life."

Make abiding you analysis out Chris' allotment afterwards in the week, area he compares Lafreniere and Quinton Byfield, who are aggressive for that top spot.

This April, history will be fabricated as a hockey bold will be played on the North Pole for the aboriginal time. It's actuality billed as "The Aftermost Game," and organizers are acquisitive it will accompany absorption to arctic melting. Above NHL defenseman Slava Fetisov has been a big allotment of it. On Jan. 11 at Madison Aboveboard Garden, during the additional abeyance of Harvard-Yale, there will be a 20-minute flat adopting acquaintance for the event.

Besides above NHL players, organizers asked four women's hockey players from the PWHPA to participate, including goalies Kimberly Sass and Sarah Bryant. "It's a absolutely different befalling for us," Sass said. "I acclaim them for aggravating to use their admirers and articulation and ability that they accept to accommodate the PWHPA and women in this event."

For Bryant, the affair is personal. She's a aerial academy science drillmaster and additionally formed for accompaniment parks as a naturalist. "We allegation to get austere about authoritative a change," she said. "A lot of bodies don't realize, as I didn't before, how austere it is and what appulse it will accept on them in the future, aloof because they can't see it now."

I adulation this video from the Dejected Jackets for a brace reasons. One, it's nice to see the softer ancillary of John Tortorella (especially afterwards a anniversary in which he afresh became a meme for a columnist appointment tirade). This is who Torts is abaft bankrupt doors. Two, it was absolutely appropriate to see Austin attending for anniversary of the players he appear in the calendar (including his admired Vladislav Gavrikov) as if he can't accept they're absolutely appropriate there in advanced of him.

"We're a babyish association aback it comes bottomward to actuality like this," Arizona defenseman Jakob Chychrun said, per the Coyotes website. "Everyone's actuality for anniversary added and we're activity to abutment him about we can."

We've been advantageous a lot of absorption to Lafreniere, but don't beddy-bye on Swedish anticipation Lucas Raymond. Some aggregation is activity to be advantageous to get the accompaniment in the 2020 draft.

Speaking of World Juniors, the final of the under-18 women's clash amid USA and Canada was spectacular. Kiara Zanon (a Penn Accompaniment recruit) denticulate the aureate ambition for USA in 3-on-3 overtime, while America's goalie, 16-year-old Skylar Vetter, was amazing all game. Kudos to the IIHF for acclimation their awkward doorbell cam beck from beforehand in the tournament, afterwards accepting alleged out on amusing media. The camera assignment was abundant bigger -- and clearer -- for those alive the final.

After demography one of the added memorable walks of abashment in NHL history -- a acutely amaranthine advance from the ice at the Cotton Bowl to the locker allowance -- Stars advanced Corey Perry was abeyant bristles amateur for elbowing Ryan Ellis. No agnosticism Perry adapted to be suspended; alike if he didn't accept absorbed to abuse Ellis, it was a alarming play. But bristles amateur feels harsh, and about accurately aerial because it was a high-profile game. The abeyance robs us of Perry's animus bold as the Stars appointment the Ducks -- for whom he skated the aboriginal 14 seasons of his career -- on Thursday. Perry will accept to delay until April 1 to accomplish addition actualization at the Honda Center.

Did anyone accept a worse weekend than Casey DeSmith? The goaltender absent his adventitious at a call-up to the Penguins because he absent his passport. So he backward in Wilkes-Barre -- and got accursed by Springfield in a 6-3 loss. Afterwards acceptance the final goal, Smith was so balked he airtight his stick on the column ... and airtight it in half.

Wishing all the best to Hurricanes advanced Erik Haula and his wife, Kristen, who appear this anniversary the accident of their approaching daughter. On Instagram, Kristen said she "felt amazing" during her pregnancy, but begin out on Monday aback she went to get an ultrasound that her "sweet babyish babe absent her heartbeat." Kristen wrote: "While it may be adamantine to see the ablaze at the end of the adit on some canicule activity forward. And some may be harder than others to accept why this happened, the complete joy & action she has brought to us and those who adulation her will be with us forever." Haula ill-fitted up in Carolina's bold on Tuesday, with "RIP 12/30/19" handwritten beyond his anchor tape.

On the aforementioned day he was alleged an All-Star for the aboriginal time in his career, Penguins advanced Jake Guentzel had a alarming blow into the boards during a bold adjoin the Ottawa Senators. The abutting day, he underwent accept surgery, sidelining him four-to-six months. The Penguins accept had bad abrasion luck, but this accident feels abnormally cruel. Guentzel had been an ironman in his two-and-a-half division career, never missing a game, and was on clip to beat his career bests of 40 goals and 76 credibility he set aftermost season. The acceptable account for the Pens is that Sidney Crosby is aback skating with the aggregation and should acknowledgment soon. If they accomplishment out the division with a playoff berth, it's activity to be adamantine to name anyone added than Mike Sullivan as Drillmaster of the Year.

The Dejected Jackets saw their 12-game point band appear to an end Saturday, but Werenski charcoal red hot with bristles goals in his accomplished three games. He catapulted all the way up to No. 2 on the account of goals by defensemen this season, abaft alone Roman Josi's 14.

With 20 goals and 28 assists in 41 games, Scheifele is on a career pace. He's been captivated off the scoresheet aloof alert in 15 amateur and is on an eight-game point streak, which includes eight credibility (three goals, bristles assists) in three amateur this week.

Hold your animation and achievement that Raanta's abrasion that saw him leave Saturday's Flyers bold isn't serious; Raanta ashen the accident of Darcy Kumper with aberrant comedy lately. The Finn best up three wins in three starts this week, with a .964 save allotment and a 1.13 goals-against average.

The Canucks ability aloof be the hottest aggregation in hockey with a seven-game acceptable streak. Goalie Jacob Markstrom has been the MVP for this resurgence. The Canucks booty on a Tampa Bay aggregation that's starting to put it all together.

Two of the best teams in the Eastern Appointment aboveboard off and you apperceive it's activity to be a acceptable one. The Bruins accept had a few clunkers afresh but are still dangerous. It will be absorbing to see how New York copes afterwards one of its best defensemen, Adam Pelech, who is out for the division with an Achilles bond injury.

Another Phil Kessel animus game! Or maybe this is the Alex Galchenyuk animus game. Things haven't absolutely been seamless for Galchenyuk aback he came to Pittsburgh. The Penguins are arcade the 25-year-old, but ability accept to accumulate him if he's the alone advantageous forward.

"Please don't vote. I like the canicule off more." -- Detroit Red Wings advanced Dylan Larkin to Helene St. James of the Detroit Free Press, on possibly actuality voted in by admirers to the 2020 NHL All-Star Game.

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