With the midway point of the NHL season now here, we have a rather solid idea of which teams might be heading to the playoffs and which will be sitting home. That said, things tend to change rather dramatically in the second half of the season, usually after teams make moves at the trade deadline. Muddying the waters a little this season is the fact that there are a lot of teams out there who have games in hand after missing a bunch during the most recent COVID outbreak.