Ranking the NHL’s Heavyweights: The 10 Best Franchises Now

This is the kind of list that tells you who has the real horsepower when the league gets nasty in spring. The best franchises are usually the ones that can draft, develop, spend, and still keep the dressing room from turning into a soap opera, and that balance is never as easy as it looks from the outside. Everybody in the league talks about culture, but the smart money knows which organizations actually have it when the pressure hits.