Quarter Season Awards: These Will Likely Change

A quarter of the ’14-’15 NHL season has come and gone, ah the memories. Seems like just yesterday they had a dry scrape before overtime, remember? Well, it’s that time to sit down and think about some of the individuals who have impressed up until this point of the season. The season is long and there is certainly a long stretch of highway to go till the finish line, but, it’s worth pointing out who the leading candidates are for the NHL awards a quarter of the way through the season.

Here we go…

Hart Trophy – Candidates: Vladimir Tarasenko STL, Steven Stamkos TB, Sidney Crosby PIT

Signifcant Injuries and the Team Responses

When Jordan Staal went down in the second preseason game of the 2014-15 season with as many twists as a Vince Russo storyline (and nearly as painful to watch), the grave that had been dug for the Carolina Hurricanes by the traditional media got six feet deeper and just predicting a dead last finish in the Metropolitan Division was no longer good enough – suddenly the Canes had bumped the Sabres from their throne of Connor McDavid inheritance because there could be no team worse than the Jordan-less Canes.