With a month remaining in the NHL regular season, clubs are jockeying for position inside their respective divisions and for wild-card spots in the Eastern and Western Conferences. The league switched from a conference-based to a division-centric format in 2013-14 mostly to take advantage of rivalries and cut down on travel in the post-season, but going into the 10th season of this format (the 2020 and 2021 playoffs were altered due to COVID), the same matchups have become stale and in certain i
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