Overview
- Colorado sits atop the league with the best points percentage, a dominant goal differential, 61 points, and only two regulation losses to date.
- Dallas has risen from 15th at last Christmas to second overall, while a Quinn Hughes-led Minnesota joins the Avalanche and Stars in a separating Central top three.
- Anaheim has climbed from near the bottom a year ago into the top 10, with the Pacific currently featuring a three-way tie at 44 points among Vegas, Anaheim, and Edmonton.
- Eastern races are unusually tight, with just 11 points separating first and last in the Metropolitan and 10 points from first-place Detroit to last-place Toronto in the Atlantic.
- Winnipeg has fallen from first at this point last season to 30th with 33 points, part of a landscape in which eight of the nine worst records at the break are in the Western Conference.