If the last NHL season brought us the Greatest Tank Ever Told, as Buffalo and Arizona furiously shoveled useful players overboard to improve their odds of drafting wonder-prospects Connor McDavid and Jack Eichel, then this season has produced a most unexpected sequel.
Tank Job II: National Treasure. OK, so it’s a working title.
With all seven of Canada’s teams among the bottom nine teams in the NHL heading into Thursday night’s play — quite a feat, when you think about it — the odds are suddenly very good that one of them will end up with the first overall pick in the 2016 draft.