Thursday Morning Skate: Daps and hugs, mean mugs and shoulder shrugs

Good morning, all. Hope your snow day was at least half as good as mine. Tonight we get a little reminder about how big of a piece of the puzzle Chara really is. Here's hoping Boychuk and Hamilton can stand up to the pressure of a pretty damn good St. Louis team.

I'm sure it'll be fine.

One week from today, we'll be half an hour away from the first Men's USA hockey game. I hope to see many of you at the Banshee!

What's on tap, y'all?