Central Division Fall Color Tour For Blackawks

Tommie Lee
Oct 25, 2014
2 min read

It’s that time of year when we drag the kids around to look at the changing leaves. In reality they probably sit back there in the backseat and stare at their phones, but at least we’re spending time together.Making the rounds to see the colors is a sign of autumn. The Chicago Blackhawks are making the rounds to see all the colors as well these days.

And like we see in the trees in our part of the country, the Hawks saw an awful lot of yellow Thursday night in Tennessee.

The yellow sweaters of the Nashville Predators played host to the Hawks in a clash of two teams that hadn’t lost a game in regulation this season. A lot of people dismissed the Preds this year in the Central…myself included…because the division is just so deep and top-heavy at the same time.

Nashville isn’t buying into the anti-hype. These guys are for real, and it’s all right there in black and white. James Neal had a natural hat trick that made it look easy in Music City’s 3-2 win over the Hawks. Mike Ribiero has a point in all but the first two games this season. Pekka Rinne looked stout in goal stopping 32 Blackhawk shots. Nashville is 5-0-2, atop the division, and off to their best start in years. The boys in yellow are going to make the Central more colorful this year than we suspected if they can keep this up. Tennesseein’ is Tennebelievin’.

Team Green, aka the Dallas Stars, are hanging in there and only a point behind the second place Blackhawks. I still maintain they will be a challenge for us all year. The multi-hued Minnesota Wild are in the middle at the moment, followed by the St. Louis Blues, the gray, lifeless Winnipeg Jets, and the First-to-Worst Colorado Avalanche. They don’t deserve a color right now other than the bruise-colored purple on their sweaters.

Chicago’s color tour steams into ‘ol St. Louie this weekend to try and avoid getting another case of the blues, so to speak. After that Chicago will play host to a team that had troubles this week that had nothing to do with hockey.

The last stop on our color tour is Red and White. Not for the Blackhawks, though. For Canada. Wednesday’s tragic events in Ottawa led to the postponement of the game between the Senators and the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs (a game the team has announced will made up November 9th).

If you missed it, NHL.com has a nice video of the tribute by the Calgary Flames that happened Thursday night, and several other observances from all over the league. It was really well done, and just goes to show no matter which sweater we wear, we all share the same blood in the end.

Go Hawks!