I have been on vacation for the past week or so and was trying (mostly without success) to stay off Twitter and what have you. "Wouldn’t it be so nice to not see people complaining about the NHL for a full week?" I thought to myself in my hubris. 

But alas, it turns out that even things that shouldn’t be able to sneak through the information blockade did so with surprising — some would say “dismaying” — ease.

And so it is that I still feel qualified to tell you who the three true stars of the week were.

Let’s go: