These charts show team shot +/-, even-strength, with the score tied against teams in every division but their own. First, the East:
| team | shot delta | team | shot delta | team | shot delta |
| nj | 223 | bos | 134 | atl | -398 |
| nyi | -281 | buf | -60 | car | 34 |
| nyr | 344 | mon | -266 | tb | -294 |
| phi | 7 | ott | 200 | fla | -192 |
| pit | -174 | tor | 65 | was | 110 |
And the west:
| team | shot delta | team | shot delta | team | shot delta |
| chi | 430 | cgy | -52 | ana | 148 |
| cls | -32 | col | -471 | dal | 46 |
| det | 1018 | edm | -525 | la | 21 |
| nsh | 91 | min | -419 | pho | -150 |
| stl | -55 | van | -26 | sj | 524 |
Now keep in mind that we've got an unbalanced schedule, so the eastern teams tend to play weaker teams overall, while the NW, in particular, plays an awful lot of games against the three best teams in the league.
What's amazing, too, is that Columbus is actually not a bad team - but they've played so many games against Nashville and Detroit and then later against Chicago that they don't look very good. If any team should ask for a transfer to the eastern conference, well, it's the western conference's easternmost team.
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