A little hockey update

So we are over one third the way through with the season and teams are settling into place. We've seen several coaches fired (Chicago, Tampa Bay, Carolina) and a few surprises. The Boston Bruins and San Jose Sharks seem to be running away with their respective conferences, already each have accumulated over 50 points with at least 50 more to play. The Tampa Bay Lightning are terrible as usual, and no amount of coaching changes are gonna help them, guess its another growing year.

The Hurricanes rehired Maurice after his banishment to Toronto, and they hope this will be the key to making the playoffs three years after they last did (and won the cup). The only problem is that they can't find consistent goal tending and they have a major problem on the bench in the form of no Special Teams management. Once again they're in the bottom third on the PK and PP, and when your also 23rd in the league in Goals per Game, that just won't do.

A pleasant surprise has been the eruption of offense from the New Jersey Devils. After HOF Goalie Martin Brodeur went out on Nov. 1, everyone was counting them out. Almost two months later, they're 9th in Goals per Game and 7th and G/A per Game, sitin pretty at 5th in the Eastern Confrence with at least two games in hand on the rest of the confrence. Could this finally be the deathnells of the trap in Jersey, only Brent Sutter knows...

Thats all fro now, have a Happy Holidays and great New Year everyone!