In a normal year, the Toronto Maple Leafs would have a good shot at the President’s trophy. The Tampa Bay Lightning are a good team, but everything has gone right for them this season. They deserve to be the top team in the league, but they aren’t 20 points better than everyone else.
If you’ve watched the Leafs play Tampa this year, you know that.
Tampa and Toronto are the two best teams in the NHL, and I think Boston is probably the third best.
That means that, for argument’s sake at least, it’s possible that the NHL’s three best teams all play in the same division.