With most of the teams passing the ten-game mark, let’s take a quick look at how things are going in the Atlantic division. Making predictions at this very early stage of the season is a very naive idea since the situation will change many times over the course of the season, but we can already identify some early contenders and ... the opposite of that.
The Florida Panthers are confidently leading not only the Atlantic division, but also the whole league. Yesterday they defeated the Carolina Hurricanes, the only other team that didn’t have a regulation loss before this game, and stood out even more significantly at the top of the league.