NHL Quarter Mark Shockers: Which Teams Are Surpassing Expectations—and Which Are Crashing Hard?
Last week, the 2025-26 NHL season passed its quarter point. It’s still early, but with one of the big demarcation points on the league’s calendar, U.S. Thanksgiving, behind us, we are starting to get an idea of what each team is and isn’t.
What better time to break out our red pens and hand out some grades? That’s exactly what The Athletic did this week when it asked its NHL staff to assign a grade to every team with expectations in mind. You’ll definitely want to show some of these to your parents (or general managers). Others … maybe not.



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