**Remember when the Blues and Blackhawks were going to catapult pass the Predators with Pekka Rinne out? Whoops. Rinne returns for first-place Nashville on Thursday night. (NHL)
**Teuvo Teravainen committed to achieving greatness. (Sun-Times)
**Evander Kane was benched for the Jets‘ Tuesday game due to a dress code violation. (Free Press)
**Do the Kings have another late-season run in them? (CBS Sports)
(The answer is of course they do. It’s coming.)
**Mike Babcock hopes the Red Wings can be the Patriots of the NHL. But who would be their Rob Gronkowski? (Yahoo!)
**With a deep draft, it’s a good year to be bad in the NHL. (USA Today)
**P.K. Subban was fined for diving. (CBS Sports)
**Henrik Lundqvist is day-to-day with a neck injury. (Puck Daddy)
**Tom Hanks attended Bruins–Rangers on Wednesday night. With Wilson, the volleyball. (CBS Sports)