Sunday was Valentine’s Day, and for a gift, the NHL gave the entire Central Division the day off.
That’s also a gift to you, dear reader, sparing you from a bevy of Valentine’s puns featuring the Stars’ Landon Bow, the Blackhawks’ Madison Bowey and, uh, <checks thesaurus> the Lightning’s Pat Maroon…
OK, maybe it was just a gift to Misery Index writers. (It's not roses or chocolates, but, hey, we're dealing with Gary Bettman here.)
But a lack of games doesn’t mean a lack of love for some newcomers to the division.
Such as the Blue Jackets’ Jack Roslovic, a Columbus, Ohio, native (who attended Miami of Ohio) who has nine points — including three goals last week — in nine games since joining the Jackets in the Patrik Laine deal.