A few days ago, someone asked America's Most Popular Statistician Nate Silver, "What's the hardest sport to predict?"
"I'm not sure that hockey is that much different than random," he answered.
With all due respect to Mr. Silver, sometimes you have a pretty good hunch. Sunday's game saw the return of Brandon Saad and a hopefully-rust-free performance of Sergei Bobrovsky, but it also pitted a team nearly 20 points ahead of Columbus in the standings featuring a transcendent hockey talent and two wins already this season. Sometimes you know how these things are going to go.