Links o' the day

It's a lazy Saturday afternoon over here on the left coast, with a few inches of snow on the ground and not much going on, so I've been surfing around a bit the past hour or so.

Here are some interesting links from the blogosphere:

• P.J. Swenson has a look at something called the Commoncensus Sports Map Project
• Earlier this week, Gabe Desjardins coined The "Nothing" Line for Anaheim's dead puck shutdown trio
• The fact that Henrik Zetterberg will miss tonight's game has Bill at Abel To Yzerman reaching for his barf bag
• Brandon Nolan, son of Ted, makes his NHL debut tonight in Tampa
• Matt Saler has a great preview of tonight's Wings-Wild game (for the sake of my fantasy team, I'm hoping Detroit's a bit nicer to Minnesota's goalies this time around)
  
• Speaking of the Red Wings, they are lapping their division (again)
• And, finally, Spector says the exodus to Europe hasn't significantly weakened the NHL's talent pool
  

That's all for now. I've been working on a look at NHL rookies off and on for about a week now, and should have that up here in the near future.

Season's greetings.