The 2019-20 season is half over and while the beginning brought some interesting twists and turns, things have started settling in back towards what many expected. Tampa Bay, Toronto and Vegas are back near the top of the league, Edmonton and Buffalo have slipped after hot starts – everything feels right again.



But there’s still a lot of runway left for teams to make some noise, to get back into the race, to lead a division charge, or to fall out of it completely. Things can change quickly in a league where anything can happen, as we learned last year with St. Louis improbably finishing with 99 points after starting the second half on pace for 76 points.



That was a special case though and while St. Louis will be used as anecdotal evidence for years to come, it’s extremely unlikely another team will be repeating that feat anytime soon.



While it’s impossible to predict exactly what’s going to happen, we can reasonably...