NHL as of December 4th

This past week in the NHL was as usual really good which had the Blackhawks take over 1st place for 1 day than go back to the Carey Prices' I mean the Canadiens. The current top 5 in the NHL are 1. Canadiens 2. Rangers 3. Blackhawks 4. Penguins 5. Blue Jackets so original six teams are doing pretty well. Plus the Blue Jackets are on fire and just keep winning and have jumped to third in the Metro division. Yesterday Mike Smith of the Coyotes made 58 saves against the Blue Jackets and still lost 3-2 in a shootout and almost smashed his stick, but didn't. The Avalanche and Coyotes are now the two worst teams since the Islanders won a few games to move up to 26th in the league. Beside all of that last week wasn't as crazy, but still had some good games. Also the Centennial and Winter Classic are less than one month away so it's time to get excited for that. Lastly I should mention that Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford had an emergency appendectomy surgery right before playing the Flyers and is out for 2-3 weeks now. So as usual the injuries are below. Will the Canadiens stay in first? Are the Blue Jackets going to stay at the top? Will the Coyotes ever move out of the bottom two? stay tuned....
Hurricanes - Elias Lindholm - Day to Day
Blackhawks - Jonathan Toews - unknown
Blackhawks - Corey Crawford - 2-3 weeks
Avalanche - Erik Johnson - 6-8 weeks
Blue Jackets - Matt Calvert - Day to day
Stars - Patrick Sharp - unknown
Red Wings - Justin Abdelkader - 2-4 weeks
Oilers - Darnell Nurse - long term
Predators - Ryan Ellis - Day to day
Rangers - J.T Miller - Day to day
Senators - Mark Methot - Day to day
Senators - Bobby Ryan - Day to day
Penguins - Chris Kunitz - Day to day
Sharks - Tommy Wingels - Day to day
Lightning - Jason Garrison - Day to day
Jets - Mark Scheifele - Day to day