Here's a look at the 16 teams separated into five tiers based on how many boxes they tick on the new-and-improved Cup ...

No playoff contender is perfect. Every single team has a reason to be hopeful this spring. But all 16 teams have red flags ...

Mikko Rantanen (five goals ... If they stick together for the playoffs, a gritty veteran duo of Josh Manson and Ryan Lindgren (53.35% of expected goals in five GP as a pair) will soak up ...

The Wild have had Avalanche-level injury issues during the second half of the year, but they still look set to finish as the first wild card and likely get Vegas in the first round. Marc-Andre Fleury ...

Mikko Rantanen had a hat trick and two assists ... The Avs are still missing Jonathan Drouin and Miles Wood up front, plus Josh Manson on defense. They’ve swapped out both of their opening ...

In contrast, two of the contenders in the East — Carolina (trading away Mikko Rantanen ... pretty thin compared to other contenders, and Josh Manson’s awful injury luck this season could ...

But they subtracted Mikko Rantanen and added Martin Necas ... captain Gabriel Landeskog back and will get Samuel Girard and Josh Manson back for the playoffs. Suzuki wasn’t about to suggest ...

Colorado entered this game on a nine-game point streak (8-0-1) and with the third-best points percentage in the NHL since trading Mikko Rantanen ... said defenseman Josh Manson (upper body ...

Much has already been written about the improvement of the goaltending and the fallout from the Mikko Rantanen for ... Injuries to Samuel Girard and Josh Manson have meant that Johnson has started ...