An NHL season isn’t just about the numbers, it often needs some alphabetical order.

Postmedia spells out the anticipated 2025-26 highlights for you:

A is for Art Ross. The points trophy split between Nikita Kucherov and Connor McDavid eight of the past nine years begs the question: Will ‘Kooch’ win a third straight and fourth overall to match McDavid’s total? Or will Nathan MacKinnon, runner-up the past two years, finally get and ‘A’, too?

B is for bench bosses beginning in new burgs. Start in Boston, where Marco Sturm is breaking in, all the way to big shake-ups on the West Coast with Joel Quenneville’s return (Anaheim), Adam Foote (Vancouver) and Lane Lambert (Seattle). In between, Mike Sullivan moves to the Rangers, Rick Tocchet (Philadelphia), Dan Muse (Pittsburgh), Jeff Blashil

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