Who's Winning "The Cup"

We have about 10 games remaining in the regular season in the NHL and it's time to "try" to figure out who's going to be about to parade around the ice with Lord Stanley's Cup and claim to be champions of the 2025-26 NHL season. I'll start with the team that has been the most dominant squad this year and that is the Colorado Avalanche (3/1). This team is loaded and have led in points, goals scored, best road record and other stats as well. Of course you have to start with Nathan MacKinnon who has had another unbelievable year and is 3rd in the NHL in points and first in goals scored. The Av's are a machine and should be the favorite but I'm not just handing over the trophy to them because this team resembles their team from last year and if you remember they were bounced from the playoffs in the 1st round by the Dallas Stars. Speaking of the Stars (11/1) they are breathing down the neck of Colorado in the Central division and have proven over the last few seasons that they are a team you do NOT want to meet come playoff time. The Stars have 4 players with 60+ points and as of March 30th they are just 6 points behind Colorado for the division. I'll end my discussion of possible winners for the Cup, at least in the Western Conference with the Edmonton Oilers (14/1). We all know how dangerous they can be on offense with probably the best player on the planet in Connor McDavid (leads NHL in points) but as it seems their weakness is goaltending especially if the offense in the playoffs isn't always there. In the Eastern Conference I'll start with the Carolina Hurricanes (5/1). The Canes are always solid on defense, but look even more impressive on offense this season than in season's past. Their top 4 scorers led by Sebastian Aho all are dynamic in different ways and are 2nd in the Conference in goal differential only to the Tampa Bay Lightning and are a shoe-in to win the Metropolitan division. The 'Ning (7/2) are creeping up on Colorado in numerous stats and the biggest reason why as usual is the play of Nikita Kucherov. He's 3rd in the league in points at 32 years of age and have just recently taken over the top spot in the Atlantic over Buffalo (19/1) and Montreal (35/1) (who would have thought to say that statement at the beginning of this season or any season for that matter). The Sabres and Habs probably won't win the Cup , but look out for both nof them to pull a shocker or two with what they are able to produce on offense and especially when they are on the power play. Like I said, the playoffs start in about 2 weeks and I for one cannot wait !!!!