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Atlantic Division Preview here Metropolitan Division Preview here Happy Wednesday, Razzball faithful! It’s your new/old hockey writing friend, MarmosDad, back with another divisional preview as we start knocking games off of the NHL calendar. Last week, I gave you the final Eastern Conference preview with the Metropolitan Division (you can click it to check it out!). This week, we head West with a peek at the Central division, and boy, am I excited to get rolling on this one!  I nearly jumped the gun and went straight to the Central when I started writing these up, just because I’m kind of obsessed with a certain Winnipeg Jets prospect who opened some eyes in training camp. That should be enough of a teaser to get us through this preview, especially because the Jets round out our teams at the bottom of our profiles today. So let’s close our eyes, take a deep breath, and try to find our Central, er, center, as we head out to visit the place with the least creative division name of all…
It's not too often that you see a team up 5-1 halfway through the game and they don't even get a point.  In fact, they lost by multiple goals.  The Sharks were taking it to the Predators on Tuesday before the firepower we expected from Smashville going into the season showed up, making a 7-5 comeback.  They were led by one of their big free agent signings, Jonathan Marchessault, who had a goal and three assists with four shots.  It was a brutal start to the season for Marchessault (like everyone on the Preds), but Marchessault is in the midst of a nine game point streak right now.  The shot is fantastic, so he's played his way back onto the fringe with a lean towards holding, especially on this hot streak.  Let's take a look at what else happened over the last two nights: