Seven NHL Offseason Questions That Could Blow Up Fast

The offseason always starts with clean whiteboards and ends with somebody in a bad mood, and this year’s NHL rumor mill is already humming. Bleacher Report frames it around seven storylines, which is code for a league full of cap pressure, impatient GMs, and enough wishcasting to fill a July press conference. The real intrigue is which front offices move early, which ones wait too long, and which contender discovers the market got a lot colder than it looked in May.