Check the standings top to bottom. Check the president trophy winner. The west has 3 sub 60 point teams and 6 sub 0.500 teams points wise 82 points . The east has zero sub 60 point teams and four sub 0.500 82 point teams. The east three teams with 110 points or more to one team in the west . They both have 5 teams of 100 points or more going to the playoffs and three teams with 90-99points making the playoff. East is deeper and has less bottom feeders this season.
1) I wasn't necessarily challenging the comment, it just looked strange to read your comment saying Kuch plays in the tougher division and conference and literally 2 replies after that someone says MacK plays in the tougher division and conference.
2) I looked at the standings and your comments are entirely correct...well, actually I guess technically correct when you say 3 teams in each getting into the playoffs with 90-99 pts, but misleading as the East has 2 teams getting in with 91 and 94 pts and the West looks to have no one under 99pts getting in.
3) What's most important to this though is the number of goals teams are giving up....you can have a conference where the teams are WAY BETTER because they score 7 goals a game, but if they are also giving up 5 goals a game, you'll score a lot of points playing against them. Personally, I wouldn't make the argument at all about strength of division/conference, but since it was raised, the Western conference in total, has given up less goals than the East....so theoretically, you'd score more playing in the East.