Follow @james_tanner123 The Arizona Coyotes resume the second half of this slog through an uphill snow covered hill called the "regular season" tonight with a (probable) loss at home to the L.A Kings.
In the department of What Else Is New? The Coyotes are the worst team in hockey and the Kings are among the best. Peter Budai (recently traded in my hockey in a should-have-been-vetoed trade for Braydon Holby) has surprised everyone by filling in adequately for Jonathan Quick.
I don't know why these people are surprised. People have been analyzing the stats for years and have said many a times that Quick is a massively overrated goalie propped up by an awesome team.
So, it makes sense then that any goalie capable of making the NHL would do well behind a team with Jeff Carter, Anze Kopitar and two of the best defensemen in the entire world.
That being said, they still have not won back-to-back games in regulation so far this season.
Only the terrible luck of the Avalanche is keeping them out of the basement. And like a blogger returning home after a public humiliation, they really, really need to be in the basement.
The plan for the rest of this season should be to jettison as much talent from this already talentless corpse of a team in order to secure the rights to incoming superstar Nolan Patrick - or whoever else Bob McKenzie says is the best pick.
So uh, let's go L.A