Our What Went Wrong series has already covered the six worst teams of 2014-15 and as climb the ranks, we're moving past the squads that entered this season with modest expectations and to ones that had genuine hope. With Buffalo for example, the title 'What Went Wrong' feels inaccurate because they never looked like a team capable of competing at the NHL level in the first place.
Now we're getting into squads whose campaigns can be classified as genuine tragedies. Many of them might not have entered the season as serious Stanley Cup contenders, but there was reason to believe that they were capable of doing so much more than they ultimately accomplished.