The 2016-17 NHL season seems to be carrying a lot of weight. There are a plethora of teams that believe they were cheated out last season and are ready to go the distance this year. There are also a lot of teams who improved strongly this offseason and are ready to prove their worth.
This is also the final season to play before everything changes. Once the NHL crowns its newest champion in June of 2017, the league will make a monumental shift from 30 teams to 31, granting Las Vegas its first professional sports franchise in history.