“Uncovering the Secrets Behind the NHL’s Unranked: What Lies in Store for the Wild and Canadiens?”
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3. The true mushy middle teams: This would be the Islanders and Utah, two teams that spent the year plugging away, hanging right around the playoff mix without ever looking especially threatening. I’m not sure there was a single week all year in which either team even occurred to me as a legitimate contender for either list. They’re fine.
That leaves us with two teams, each of whom deserves its own category.
2. The disaster: That would be the Bruins. They started slow, fired the coach, never got more than a couple of games over fake .500, faded in the second half, sold at the deadline and are now cratering their way to a miserable finish. They’re actually closer to the bottom of the standings than I’d realized, so there’s a small but non-zero chance they could actually find the bottom five by the end of things. What a mess.
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