Carolina is the one team that seems geared to tanking.
Edmonton and Colorado have been disappointed this season and pretty much forced into it as the best option at this point.
Teddy Nolan has never tanked a team in his life and he lost his job on Long Island because he took his underdog Islanders to the playoffs when he was instructed to play prospects as rookies instead of trying to compete. Nolan has succeeded to exceed expectations everywhere he has ever coached (e.g., major juniors in two stints, Buffalo, NYI, Latvia, Buffalo).
Hartley's Flames are simply a product of the law of averages. They try but they haven't got the gas in the tank offensively to maintain their coach-inspired start to the season.
As long as fan-abandoned Arizona or Florida don't win the McEichel sweepstakes, I don't care who gets the two superstars.
Every team talked about in this thread are irrelevant to the real season (postseason) for the next several years.