NHL Saturday: Parise steps up in a monumental Wild win in Colorado

The least talked-about team in the NHL over the past few weeks is also the league’s hottest. And they’re making the defending champions sweat a little.

Predators 5, Blue Jackets 1

He lost his footing at about the same time that Hanzal made contact with him, and the result was scary.

Giroux appeared to land head-first into the boards and was knocked out cold for at least two seconds. He received help back to the locker room and didn’t return. The Flyers immediately pounced on Hanzal, and a melee ensued.

Sometimes, when you’re a kid, you just want to toss a baseball with someone. But nobody’s around, so you just end up tossing the ball high into the air and try to catch it as it comes down. Sometimes you throw it too far backwards and you fall over.

Much like the lonely kid and the baseball, Korpisalo fell over. BUT HE CAUGHT IT.

Drake Caggiula had just reached the pinnacle moment of his life.

And then the referee got in the way.