If you’ve dealt with a lack of hockey by refusing to even tempt yourself with the thought of it, you might have missed that the NHL is going for a shortened season with fully in-division play, and that thanks to stricter Canadian safety protocols there’s been a temporary divisional re-alignment to leave the Canadian teams in their own division, while the rest of us brawl it out in the post-apocalyptic wastelands.
As part of SBNation’s 2021 season preview, we’re all introducing ourselves to our new division-mates (with thanks to Taylor of Defending Big D for wrangling this behind the scenes).