The winds are beginning to change in the NHL's Metropolitan Division, though not before the old guard gets at least one more shot.

Washington easily won the division last season and has much of the same lineup back, potentially with career goal scoring leader Alex Ovechkin playing his final season for the Capitals.

Carolina added one of the top free agents in Nikolaj Ehlers to a core that has been to the Eastern Conference final two of the past three years. while the New York Rangers have a new coach in Mike Sullivan. Across the river in New Jersey, the Devils are getting No. 1 center Jack Hughes back healthy and ready to make the run they've been building toward.

“Everybody’s goal is to win a Stanley Cup, but to do that you’ve got to have the right process,” New Jersey general

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