I’ll start off by agreeing with Eric and Scotty: This is harder than it looks. There are some very good teams that you start off assuming will crack the list, only to find out that you don’t have room for them at the end. If your reaction to any of these lists is to roll your eyes that Team X absolutely has to be there, make sure you tell us which teams come off to make room. It’s tough.
That said, my list will have some significant overlap with the others, especially at the top. I part ways from my colleagues just a bit in a few ways, most notably that I’m apparently more willing to forgive a team that had a dominant season that didn’t end in a Stanley Cup.