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If the season were to end today, Vegas and Colorado would meet in the first round of the playoffs.

Think about that for a second.

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An expansion team full of castaways has the most wins in the Western Conference, while a team that a year ago finished dead last in the NHL is holding down a wild-card spot. Meanwhile, the Chicago Blackhawks and Edmonton Oilers — two of the pre-season favourites to win the Stanley Cup — are battling it out for 12th place in the West.

Shows what we know. It also shows just how crazy this season has been so far.

“You guys can say whatever, you didn’t expect, you didn’t expect,” Avalanche defenceman Nikita Zadorov said. “But this league is so even right now. Did anyone expect Arizona to be in last place or did anyone expect Vegas to be in first place? Vegas is there and this league is so even. There’s no bad teams, every team is really good and then some teams underestimate us because we’re playing hard.”