The Wild has now gone 22-7-5 in its last 34 games, a .720 pace that, if extrapolated over 82 games, would work out to a 118-point season. Amazing hockey, and yet, they have been eating the Canucks' dust for, it seems, weeks on end. Vancouver has played its last 34 games at a .779 clip, which [to revisit that fantasyland where such extrapolations belong] equates to 128 points over a full season.

— Cam Cole, Vancouver Sun

With no race to get into the playoffs to speak of, the division battles are going to be the real stories heading down the stretch in the Western Conference.

At the moment, Anaheim is the only Western team with a lock on their division, while New Jersey and Buffalo seem relatively safe in the East.