*What-if week is making us look back on some interesting times and ponder some alternate timelines. And of course one of the wildest alternate timelines would be the one in which Nashville didn’t match. [BSH]
*Also have to consider how things might have changed had Mr. Snider not been hellbent on signing a big-name goaltender. [BSH]
*And then of course there are the re-drafts. Nothing gets weirder than trying to do-over a draft, what with all of this beneficial hindsight. [BSH]
*But enough of the alternate timelines; we’re still stuck in this hellish existence, in which Gary Bettman insists that cancelling the season just isn’t on the table.