Ottawa is screwed because of Melnyk, but I like a lot of their kids and think they could bounce back quickly if Melnyk weren't insisting on using EK to dump the Ryan contract...and the goaltending got it's s*** together. The blue line is going to be a mess, but if their kids hit the ground running they could have a pretty sweet forward core as early as next year:
Hoffman - Duchene - White
Dzingel - Brown - Stone
Formenton - Pageau - Ryan|Gaborik's corpses
Burrows - Smith - Batherson
Buffalo doesn't belong. They have some big holes, some clutter to shed in time; but they have some really good young pieces to continue building around with Eichel, Mittelstadt, ROR, Samson, Risto, Guhle, etc. When you have that much center depth in the organization it makes it a lot easier to fix a lot of other problems...especially with a draft this stacked in top 10 dmen.
The kings seem to have some good kids if Doughty stays, his future is the big question mark for them but I don't think they're in that bad of shape at the moment.
Wings are a mess, but at least they're starting to rebuild. Montreal is just f***ed and Bergevin will only make things worse.