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Lapsed fan's guide to the NHL season - trades, signings, more

When the Colorado Avalanche hoisted the Stanley Cup for the first time since 2001, it signaled the end of an NHL season that was a return to normalcy but still notably impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

After a truncated 2020-21 season with intra-divisional play, the NHL's 32 teams — including the debuting Seattle Kraken — were back in their traditional four divisions and two conferences for an 82-game campaign.

But the omicron variant hit the league hard near the end of 2021 with dozens of game postponements, player absences due to positive tests and teams shutting down activities around the holiday break.

With 50 games postponed through Dec. 23, commissioner Gary Bettman announced that NHL players would not participate in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing due to «the regular-season schedule having been materially disrupted as a result of increasing COVID cases and a rising number of postponed games.» The Olympic break was instead used to make up some of those games.

COVID's impact on NHL rosters meant that 1,004 different skaters and a record 119 different goaltenders saw action during the regular season. NHL players and executives believe that lineup shuffling was one of many reasons the 2021-22 season saw a goal-scoring boom: 6.3 goals per game, the most in an NHL season since 1995-96, a leap forward after a steady increase in goal-scoring over the last several seasons.

Will that trend continue in the 2022-23 season? Can the Avalanche go back-to-back like the team they defeated for the Cup, the Tampa Bay Lightning, did in the previous two seasons?

If you haven't kept up with the NHL in the past few months, don't fret, we've got you covered. Here's a chance to catch up on everything that has happened — the hirings,

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