Lighting the Lamp, with Rick Ackerman
A chill in the October air means once again it is time for the faithful to gather and congregate at the alter of the hockey gods at the TradeStocks Center in downtown St. Louis. After a long, uneventful summer, all of a sudden there has been a flurry of activity with several PTOs offered to veteran NHL players, including Yan Stastny, T.J. Galiardi and Mike Weber (none of whom were signed). Vlad Sobotka returned to Russia, unable to get out of his KHL contract, yet another Russian winger was obtained from Edmonton in a low-risk, low-cost trade.