January is pretty much an unrelenting slog as far as everything goes. The weather is terrible, you remember that there’s too many hockey games in the regular season, and unless you really like talking about who is in the All-Star Game, the discussion will be about trades.
The trade deadline is two months away, so that’s a lot of time to fill speculating about who the Leafs are going to add — and subtract since they have 49 SPCs that count against the 50-player limit right now.
It’s begun already with a mention on the 32 Thoughts podcast from December 30 that Tyler Ennis was playing in the Spengler Cup.