Let's get spooky, with the roster for this year's Scary Start team
Friday night is the scariest night of the year. Call it spooky season, or call it fright-fest, or whatever else you might want, but it’s the one night where everyone huddles up and lets cold shivers race up and down our spines.
Yes, it’s October 31 – the last night for NHL teams to get within four points of a playoff spot before Elliotte Friedman’s fabled Curse of November 1st kicks in and all but officially starts eliminating also-rans from the playoff race.
Oh, it’s also Halloween, if you’re into that sort of thing.
Either way, it’s time for our annual roster of the NHL’s scariest starts, relative to expectations. As always, we do the full roster plus an extra goalie, with a limit of one player per team. That means 11 teams will get away unscathed, which will somehow upset their fans even though it’s mostly a good thing. That's OK, this time of year doesn't have to make sense. The bones are the skeletons' money, in their world bones equal dollars.
Where were we? Rigbt, it’s spooky season. Time to yell “boo!”
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