At long last, the NHL season has fully arrived.
After a bit of a tease over the weekend with the New Jersey Devils knocking off the Buffalo Sabres twice in Prague, the rest of the league gets to join in on the fun and all of those hopes, dreams and expectations can be fulfilled gloriously or blown to smithereens ignominiously. When it comes to contenders and pretenders, the NHL has big handfuls of both of them.
But which of those contenders are the real deal and who among them are merely playing the role in hopes of fooling everyone else?