from Bob McKenzie of TSN,

It's the Tampa Bay Lightning’s world, we’re just living in it.

Or at least that is the clear takeaway from TSN’s annual Mid-Season NHL Head Coaches Poll, conducted this week, just prior to the league’s all-star break.

Every NHL head coach - all 31 of them - responded to the TSN Hockey poll, which was largely dominated by the Lightning.

Consider:

- Tampa winger Nikita Kucherov finished in a dead heat - 14 votes apiece - with Colorado Avalanche centre Nathan MacKinnon in voting for Best Player in the NHL so far this season. Boston’s Patrice Bergeron (two) and Edmonton’s Connor McDavid (one) were the only other players to get votes.

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