As the end of the NHL regular season approaches, there's still a wide array of teams that could earn the two wild-card berths in each conference.
Five teams in the Western Conference and four in the Eastern Conference have been jockeying for position over the last few weeks in order to set themselves up for the best results during the stretch run.
Although the reward of facing a division winner in the first round of the playoffs doesn't seem ideal, the goal at the moment for each franchise is to just secure one of the two wild-card positions and then worry about the threat ahead in the postseason.