Everything starts over, though expectations are built upon success from last season. Last season will not contribute toward the stats and standings of 2015-16.
You can love the 2014-15 season and the end result, or you can feel the shortcoming of finishing second - falling to the Chicago Blackhawks in the Stanley Cup Finals. You can reflect in the memories from the season, the storylines, the singular goals and different in-game dramas. Yet that was the life and times of last season and that's in the past now. It's past-tense.
Over, done with, moot, in the history books, we move forward.