Hockey Thoughts: Streaky, Streaky

We're just past the half way mark of the 2010-2011 season and all I can say for the Preds is that they are streaky.  It's been a rough rollercoaster ride of ups and downs--feast or famine.  One week they are scoring 4-5 goals a game and whooping ass, the next week they drop five in a row and end up in the points basement again.

injuries have been a problem of late, but the team is still finding a way to string together wins with a depleted roster (that isn't all that strong to begin with).  Unfortunately, they are also finding ways to string together losses just as frequently.  The Western Conference in a points logjam as usual any more slides could prove fatal come April.

Colin Wilson is showing alot of promise, but so was Cal O'Reilly until he broke his leg in a freak fall.  Several more new players are getting out there and making a difference, but on the whole it's hard to predict going into any game where the final score will end up.

As for the Caps, they are also a little streaky--or rather just plain inconsistent--winning one, or two then dropping one or two.  They can't seem to string together any performance whatsoever except to be a complete disaster.  They are losing their grip on the Southeast division, and are falling in the standings, albeit slowly, since the Eastern conference isn't quite as close a race in points as the Western.

I'll check back on things around the All-Star break, but for now I'm content with how the seasons are playing out, for the most part.  For the last four years that the Winter Classic has been played, one of the two teams has ended up in the Stanley Cup finals...let's pray that the blessing falls on the Caps and not the Pens.