At the time of this writing, the Arizona Coyotes are in third place in the Western Conference, trailing San Jose and Winnipeg only by goal differential.
Mother of all small sample sizes? Absolutely. Does that make it any less fun? Absolutely not.
What we've seen in the past couple of games are flashes of what makes optimism for the future possible. Mike Smith has conceded two goals in 120 minutes of play, while youngsters Max Domi, Anthony Duclair, Jordan Martinook, and Tobias Rieder all have at least one point.