Anyone else's head in a pretzel when forecasting the first full (let's hope) NHL season in three years? Divisions, conferences, point totals — what was normal is now abnormal after two shortened years threw the hockey world out of its regular cadence.
What's hilarious is that a very select few didn't skip a beat when examining HockeyDB or Hockey Reference pages. For example, world-best Connor McDavid posted the third-highest point total in his six seasons with less than 70 percent of the normal allotted runway last season, scoring at a pace we haven't seen in decades.
The standard has shifted, man.