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Continuing what was started yesterday, here are "thumbs up and down" to certain teams and individuals in the NHL's Western Conference, whose play should make them and their fans feel good and bad. Some choices aren't so obvious, while others are.

Thumbs up to the "feel-good" team(s) in the West - to avoid angry feedback from two of the three Canadian cities, and because it is almost a dead heat, those teams are the Vancouver Canucks, Winnipeg Jets and Calgary Flames. If forced to rank them, I'll do so in that order. 

The Canucks get the highest marks because they are a new team from president Trevor Linden to general manager Jim Benning to coach Willie Desjardins to forward Bo Horvat - rookies at every level. There should have been a learning curve, but, for the most part, none was evident. 

The Jets are in a fight for a playoff spot, and a chance to win the first playoff game in the history of the franchise that began in Atlanta in 1999 would represent obvious success in Winnipeg's fourth year. 

Coach Paul Maurice aims higher, I'm sure, and at their best this season, the Jets allow him to do that. 

The Flames seemed on the verge of collapse until their unexpected comeback win at Los Angeles recently. Known forevermore as the "Johnny Hockey Hat Trick" game, it reminded the rest of the West not to write off Calgary. 

The obvious "feel-good" team in the West? The Nashville Predators. The team that couldn't score can score. The team that could always defend can still defend.

Thumbs up to the "feel-good" player in the West - St. Louis Blues' forward Vladimir Tarasenko. He doesn't just score goals, he scores "Sportscentre" goals. 

Tarasenko hardly came from nowhere to reach this season's success - he was a first-round draft selection in 2010 and he scored 21 times last season, but this is different. Or the same, if you will. Tarasenko has matched last season's goal total already. 

One note of caution: Tarasenko was at his best when Jaden Schwartz was his linemate. Schwartz's absence was felt almost immediately when he left the lineup with a foot injury.

The obvious "feel-good" choice? Filip Forsberg of the Nashville Predators. The NHL's highest-scoring rookie is also the league's plus-minus co-leader. "Feel-good" indeed for the Predators, quite the opposite for the team that gave up on Forsberg much too soo - the Washington Capitals.

Thumbs down to the "feel-bad" team in the West. Let's just skip to the obvious choice, shall we? And past the obvious choice, so we don't have to dwell on the Edmonton Oilers. You can only feel so bad for so long.

The other obvious choice is Colorado, or maybe Arizona, or Dallas, or Minnesota. 

Many "feel-good" teams naturally equals many "feel-bad" teams.

Thumbs down to the "feel-bad" player(s) in the West, Oilers notwithstanding. 

The choice is Patrick Sharp of the Chicago Blackhawks. Similar to yesterday's choice in the East, David Krejci, Sharp is a big scorer on a contending team who hasn't played often enough or well enough to score big this season. Unlike Krejci, Sharp's difficult season has not hampered his team. And it says something about the Blackhawks when they can see their top goal scorer of last season click only five times and still contend for the league lead.