Right. You really need to do well when you get your chance. Jeff Blashill after being fired by the Wings has spent the past 2 1/2 years as assistant coach with Tampa and I can’t see him being of head coach interest to any other teams either.
Washington, #1 in the conference but with no players at 4 Nations, came out of the break flying, blowing out Pittsburgh 8-3.
New York Rangers, #11 in the conference and having sent 6 players to 4 Nations, got bombed 8-2 by Buffalo.
Good post. For all that state contributes at the high school and college level, it’s been pretty much dud at the NHL level. The Wild especially, as you noted. But even the North Stars, hard to think of anything memorable about them except the bright green jerseys and the Dino Ciccarelli-led run to the final one year.