CHT Episode 19: Is 2016 Over Yet?

The Sharks have gotten off to a great start to their roadtrip (which has since gone downhill,) the Ducks are starting to establish themselves at the top of Pacific Division, and we still can’t tell if the Kings are terrible or are going to work some Kings magic and still contend despite icing a team of goalie trainers and rink janitors. In other news, 2016 continues to be a terrible year, as injuries and bad diagnoses abound in the NHL, but at least someone finally wrote us an email.

-Intro: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dave_Depper/Compositions_3/Sportsreel

-Outro: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dave_Depper/Compositions_3/Swagger_1

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-The Ducks made a trade this past week: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/capitals/ducks-trade-f-michael-sgarbossa-to-florida-for-f-logan-shaw/2016/11/16/62258756-ac65-11e6-8f19-21a1c65d2043_story.html

-New inductees to the Hockey Hall of Fame include ex-King Rogie Vachon and ex-Shark Sergei Makarov. https://www.hhof.com/htmlinduct/ind16prolog.shtml

-Ignoring the Sharks injury news from this week that was devastating, Karlsson was injured blocking a shot and is still DTD. https://twitter.com/CurtisPashelka/status/798238472561688576?s=09

- Brian Bickel has been diagnosed with MS, similar to the case with G Josh Harding a couple years ago https://www.nhl.com/hurricanes/news/bryan-bickell-diagnosed-with-multiple-sclerosis/c-283637026

-The Pacific Division has lost an electrifying player for at least several weeks: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2670710-johnny-gaudreau-injury-updates-on-flames-lws-recovery-from-finger-surgery

-And a former electrifying-player-from-the-Pacific-Division is out with a knee injury: https://www.nhl.com/devils/news/devils-provide-update-on-lw-taylor-hall/c-283799766

-Similar to Hall’s injury but much worse in scope, Stamkos has gone down with another bad injury. Poor guy can’t catch a break: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/steven-stamkos-out-at-least-four-months-after-surgery-164859859.html

-Russel Wilson has joined the effort to bring hockey (and basketball, but who cares) to Seattle: http://www.theplayerstribune.com/russell-wilson-lets-bring-the-sonics-back-to-seattle/