Chris Pronger

With the Minnesota Wild, you're going to be facing the Dallas Stars.

And that's the thing is the Stars have been in this championship window.

They've advanced to three straight Western Conference Finals.

The Wild have been, for the most part, a consistent playoff team.

It's just a team that has struggled to get beyond the first round.

And this is the most talented Wild team we've seen in a while.

And now it's a question of can they get beyond the first round, knowing for as good as the Wilds have been, they're going against a Dallas team that's

This is what they are built to do.

Like they are built to get to the conference final.

And it's a vision that has been arguably the most challenging in hockey for some people.

But then when you look at the rest of the West, like there are questions like how big of a year could this be for them?

Anaheim Ducks because people who paid attention to that team, they've seen them build and build and build.

And what you've now put together as a team that for all the young talent that it has with Sineke, with Carlson and the like, you have this older group that you've reinforced by getting John Carlson.

We've seen what Joel Quinville can do in a playoff environment.

It makes the Ducks a really fascinating team.

Whereas if you look at the wildcard conversation, like Utah is young.

It has, between, let's say, it starts to bleed, but it's what?

Like, Clayton Keller, Lawson Kraus, all those guys, like, they're three of the most experienced of that young core having 21 playoff games altogether.

Mikhail Sergachev has had playoffs, like, years where he's played more than 21 games.

And you're going to need...