That east coast trip is still paying dividends for the Eastern Conference teams as the Avs play without Toews (hurt in Carolina), Landeskog (hurt in Florida) and Wedgewood (hurt somewhere?).

I’ve heard on other polls lately that the national writers are pumping up Celebrini as a Hart candidate and he’s a great story but I still think it’s easily MacKinnon. It’s one thing to elevate a bad team to good but I think it’s a better thing to elevate a very good team to all-time great territory