It feels like I’ve been writing it for much longer, and that’s because I did, in a way. My good friend Scott Powers came up with the idea for this thing prior to last season, but this column’s roots preceded even him.
They stretch all the way back to the late 1980s and early 1990s, when I had to be the only teenage Red Wings fan on the planet who also liked their main rival, the Chicago Blackhawks. People think I’m just bullshitting when I say this, because it turned out that life led me to become a Blackhawks writer.