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NHL midseason report: Grades, MVPs, players who need reset for all 32 teams

In the NHL, handing out midseason grades is a tricky proposition.

Entering Monday's games, there are 15 teams that have yet to hit the 41-game mark, including the New York Islanders, who have played just 34 of them.

There have been 104 games postponed due to players and coaches entering the NHL's COVID-19 protocol, and another 25 games were rescheduled to accommodate those postponements. The league claimed the material changes to the schedule were significant enough that it needed to opt out of the Beijing Olympics to use the scheduled February break for make-up dates.