Challenging the Panic Button

Dim outlook in Arizona and Montreal? Sabres looking good. Kraken Crakin'? Good stuff about good guys. Isles legend, Mike Bossy is diagnosed with lung Cancer.

PANIC!

Yes or no?

In Montreal and Arizona? Either or both.

As I wrote here a couple of days ago, media types are too impulsive when it comes to authoring first-week-of-the-season panic stories.

A couple of losses and these negative newsies figure there's an HMS Hockey Titanic on ice in some NHL waters. 

I say they've got it all wrong because in a marathon se…