The Biggest Takeaways from the 1st Month of the 2016-17 NHL Season

November 11th, 2016 by Allan Mitchell Leave a reply »
Every NHL team has now played at least a dozen games, and there are some amazing stories and surprising trends emerging. Rookies are grabbing more headlines than normal, the Eastern Conference is dominating the Western Conference and some perennial bottom feeders are making their moves into playoff positions.

These are still relatively early days in the 2016-17 season, but some trends are clear, and the new impact players are obvious. Connor McDavid has the Edmonton Oilers near the top of the Pacific Division standings, and the Dallas Stars surprised everyone with a slow start.

Here are the biggest news items from the early portion of this season.

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