Part of what we're encouraged to do here at The Athletic is disrupt. With that in mind, I'm running my Western Conference preview piece before my Eastern Conference preview, contrary to the fusty traditions and eastern bias of Big Media. Also, it's not so much a preview, as it is a question about each Western Conference team that I'm interested in learning the answer to this year, along with my own speculation as to the answer.
1. Will depth fix Vancouver's problems? I mentioned this the other day but there was a quote from Henrik Sedin a few weeks ago that was so thoroughly depressing that it needs further examination.