So, here’s a question for the NHL’s 16 non-playoff teams, most of whom are in the process of, or already have completed their postmortems for the 2023-24 season. Technically, every team that missed the playoffs failed on some level this year, although the ones that gave themselves no chance to win at all – such as the San Jose Sharks, Chicago Blackhawks or Anaheim Ducks – could theoretically, be said to have succeeded by failing as spectacularly as they did. I’m stridently against tanking, which I get into in great detail here. My sympathies always lie with the teams that...