A brief hockey hiatus

Well this week is the NHL All Star Break so perhaps it's a good time to take a look back and then a look ahead at the season so far and to come.

Clearly the individual story of the year in the NHL to this point is the emergence of Crosby as the best player in the game. He is so far ahead of anyone else at just the age of 19, well one wonders just how good he will become eventually.

On a team basis, Buffalo and Anaheim have been the standard bearers for their conferences for most of the first half. But both has shown some recent slippage allowing teams like Ottawa, Nashville, Vancouver, and New Jersey to perhaps believe they can make a run in the season's second half.

At BetBug you can still get both Ottawa and Vancouver at decent prices to win the Cup and I can certainly think of worse wagers than those.