The wild-card races have been settled. Home ice has been decided. And from here on out, every second of every game could be the difference between a championship run rolling on or an early summer quietly approaching. The 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs have arrived, and given the way this season’s gone, we’re staring down a wild one. We have an image in our heads of what exactly playoff hockey looks like. The freewheelers, the high-flyers, they get stuck in the mud. Time and space evaporate, and sheer determination reigns supreme. So, how does that reconcile with a year that’s seen scoring around the league skyrocket? We have hundred-point scorers by the handful, we’re seeing more goals scored per game than any year since the mid-‘90s, the days of Nos. 66 and 99. But we’re told different stories about how that’ll translate when the ice turns to mud, when we get that playoff grind back. Some look at a team like Florida and can’t see how anyone could stop one of the most dominant offences ...