2016 NHL Playoffs: Eastern Conference Preview

Bryan Altman, CBS Local Sports
The slate has been wiped clean. 2,460 NHL regular season games – 82 apiece for each of the NHL’s 30 teams – are now, ultimately, irrelevant as we head into the 2016 NHL Playoffs where anything can happen. No. 1 seeds can fall, No. 8 seeds can hoist Lord Stanley’s Cup and unlikely heroes can and will emerge to spur their team to dramatic victories over the course of the next two months. 
So now that the first round series’ are