The 2020 NHL playoffs are cause for wondering what might have been.
The pandemic-delayed finish to the 2019-20 season is past the halfway point, with the Dallas Stars battling the Vegas Golden Knights in the Western Conference Final and the Tampa Bay Lightning battling the New York Islanders in the East. The winners will meet for the Stanley Cup championship in Edmonton.
Vegas advanced with a Game 7 victory over the Vancouver Canucks, a series that prompted reader Alex M.’s question to be the subject of this Detroit Red Wings mailbag: “What’s the bigger miss — Wings drafting Svechnikov instead of Boeser or Zadina instead of Hughes?