While unpredictability can always be counted on in the NHL, it's how those storylines take shape that provides the most intrigue.

We're still over a week or so from the quarter pole of the 2025-26 but what takes place on a nightly basis never leaves a shortage of talk points. Some good. Some not so good. And some outright ugly.

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