Here is the holiday break edition of the weekly NHL.com mailbag, where we answer your questions asked on X and Bluesky. Send your questions to @drosennhl and @NHLdotcom on X, or @drosennhl.bsky.social on Bluesky, and tag them with #OvertheBoards.
What team firmly in a playoff position now will be playing golf at the end of the regular season? — @ForeverSand
Man, you’re really bringing the holiday cheer with this question.
The easy choice is the Ottawa Senators because they have so much to prove, but there’s no team behind them in the Eastern Conference that screams out second-half surge. As long as the Senators continue to get saves from goalie Linus Ullmark, they’re as good a pick as any to make the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
So…