It has been some time since we last spoke, and wow has the Central Division changed. Not so much for any team that isn't the Nashville Predators, but Nashville's continued fall from grace has all the pacing of Peter Jackson's Hobbit films. Even now there is little end in sight for the Predators as Poile trades players, waives non-contributing players, gives Kevin Fiala a spin, and for some reason also chose to recall general nice hockey man and professional warm body Cody Bass. In the last edition I wrote about how Preds fans are suffering through the worst of things in the Central.