Which surviving playoff teams should Canadian fans root for?

It’s\u200b another year without\u200b a Stanley\u200b Cup\u200b for\u200b Canada but\u200b at\u200b least the\u200b hockey gods didn’t\u200b toy with us\u200b for\u200b too long this\u200b\u200b time. Four of the country’s seven teams didn’t make the playoffs at all and the three that did all made first-round exits. When the Maple Leafs are your longest surviving team, it hasn’t been a great year.

And if we’re being honest, most Canadian fans are probably fine with that. The whole national Cup drought thing has always been the sort of narrative that seems to be more important to the media than to most of the fans. Let’s face it, most of the country’s fans don’t want to see any Canadian team…