It is quite remarkable that a poster on this board actually talks with 30 NHL GMs (I guess he has not yet connected with George McPhee).  We should feel privileged to have someone on this thread with those connections.  Impressive.

Of course, if the expected outcome of talking to 30 GMs is so blatantly obvious, then one need not to talk to all the GMs to know what they would say.  The conclusions would be obvious.  However, using the analogy of talking to all 30 GMs to make a biased opinion of course would be silly.  Like saying there are so many god awful teams in the East.

In fact, there are 6 teams in the East and 6 teams in the West with 75 points or less...if one considers just over a 500% winning record god awful...certainly a % not good enough to obtain a playoff spot. - which many posters say is god awful, including one prominent poster who apparently talks to all 30 GMs.