Agreed. I don't know of any other sports league that spreads out the talent as well as the NHL. Every team is capable of winning on any given night. Teams like the Blue Jackets and Isles, for the most part, fail because of utter incompetence at the top, not because they're AHL teams dressed in NHL sweaters. Granted, depth is what gets you farther than the other team, but the "bad" teams have some really great players on them. Johnny Tavares? Rick Nash?
NHL is the best league ever created.
MLB is probably the worst.