The regular season gets under way on Thursday night, with the Blue Jackets heading to Nashville to take on the Predators. That kicks off a difficult 10-game stretch to open the season, which will tell us quite a bit about where the Jackets season may go.
Those 10 games will take us all the way through the month of October. By the time the puck drops against the St Louis Blues on November 1st, we will be one tenth of the way through the NHL season.
It took so long to get here, and now it feels like it will go so quickly.