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The impact made at the trade deadline usually has little relation to how a team performs in the standings in the weeks following. It’s the dirty secret of the trade deadline -- you can win all the accolades, but it doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be winning games afterward. Just look at the St. Louis Blues following the Ryan Miller deal last season. But the deadline gives us closure. The teams we see on the ice now likely are how they will look in some form when the playoffs begin. So with that in mind, we’ll spend the next two days on this blog resetting the races in each conference, beginning with the Western. The Stanley Cup favorites:  1. Los Angeles Kings
As this is being typed, they’re not in a playoff position -- but I’d still take them over every single team in the top eight.
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