Anywho, let's see what's out there in America's Heartland - and Nashville.
Our friends (and by friends I mean fellow smartasses who also write a gameday newspaper - they're like Game Time's cousins or something) over at Second City Hockey have a recap of what you can tell about the Blackhawks after one month in. Kudos to them for not doing what a lot of other Hawks sites are doing - "Wooooo! We're in FIRST!" is not an in-depth analysis. Because, um, there are like 65 or so games left. Gimmie substance, please.
Hockey's Future has the top 10 organizational rankings out, and the Blue Jackets are 4th (Blues are 1st and the Preds are 2nd, so the Central should be tough for some time to come). Nikita Filatov is their number one prospect and apparently will be a contender for the Calder this year. Someone might want to mention that to Ken Hitchcock.
Mirtle wrote an excellent six part series on the viability of the Nashville Predators as a hockey market. Excellently researched - as a fan of the Thrashers, I appreciate someone taking the time to visit Nashville to see what's going on there first hand. I'm fairly tired of people writing stuff that usually sounds like:
"(Insert non-traditional market team here) doesn't have the fan base to succeed. Their attendance is awful. They need to win in the playoffs or else (insert big name star) is going to leave in free agency. Since they're located in the south, the team will automatically finish in the bottom of their Conference. Oh, and LOL @ rednecks!"
MLive.com is hoping that the Red Wings have turned a corner. That's odd - so do I. Into a wall.
And finally, continuing the injury bug that has been harassing the Blues for the past few seasons, Andy McDonald does his best impression of me in high heels and takes a header into the boards:
Thank God he appears to be ok so far, though he probably won't play Thursday as a precaution. No word yet on Sunday at Atlanta.
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