The Golden Knights not only have the best roster in the division, one that has been in the Conference Final/Semifinals in three of its first four years in the league (including this past season), but the rest of the division is just all stuck in various levels of mediocrity or rebuilding. Anaheim is stuck in neutral, Los Angeles has a bright future but is probably not ready for that jump, Vancouver, Calgary, and Edmonton are total wild cards, and Seattle is an expansion team.San Jose Sharks 1-Gang
PointsBet, NBC Sports’ partner for betting odds, recently released its list of point total odds for every NHL team in 2021-22. There are some familiar teams at the top, and some expected faces at the bottom. Toronto Maple Leafs 3-Gang
• The St. Louis Blues announced they will retire Chris Pronger’s No. 44 on January 17, 2022 to honor his career with the team. [St. Louis Blues]
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Detroit has some really strong prospects in its system. Seider, Tumoisto, Wallinder, and Edvinsson lead a very exciting crop of developing blueliners. Raymond is clearly the most tantalizing forward prospect, but the development of Berggren, Niederbach, Hanas, and Mazur will all be worth monitoring, too. Cossa now becomes the team's goaltender of the future, but it wouldn't be shocking in the least to see Nedeljkovic establish himself as a high-end starting option this upcoming season.
The veteran center held an introductory press conference Monday with HC Olomouc, a club team in the Czech Repulbic's Extraliga that signed him to a one-year contract. And it sounds like he plans to honor that contract.Vegas Golden Knights 2-Gang
Finished In the top-five of the Vezina Trophy voting four times in six years, was a finalist three times, won it once, and never finished lower than sixth in the voting.
