Finding hope for the NHL’s ten most hopeless teams

Dom Luszczyszyn’s season previews have been rolling out since last week, as he counts down from the league’s worst projected teams to the best. He’s still got a ways to go before he gets to the top contenders, but we now know his model’s bottom ten. And that means it’s time for our annual attempt to argue that he’s wrong, and these teams could actually be good. And not just “fringe playoff good”, but actually against-all-odds really good.

There’s always some mixed feelings around this one. On the one hand, this is a post that’s all positivity. I don’t do a lot of that, and it’s a nice change. We’ll have most of the season to complain about this or criticize that, but not today. Today, we’re…