You know those random thoughts that pop into your head, we all have them. The ones that are worth putting out there but are to under developed to deserve more than a paragraph. These are the thoughts often left to Twitter and the myriads of readers it indulges. These are the thoughts that will be left for you to read, in their raw fledgling form, every Thursday.

I’m going to propose an order of importance to each of these thoughts, though realistically there is usually only one prominent thought on my mind leaving numbers 2-13 with fairly equal value.

Please, don’t let me hold you up. Here are my 13 Thursday thoughts from around the NHL:

(please read responsibly)

#13 It’s really a shame that the NHL couldn’t put together something for hockey fans on American Thanksgiving. I’m not looking for anything special, we don’t need a corn field game or all-day college hockey, but wouldn’t it be nice to have an American original six matchup to watch and provide us with some non-football options?

#12 Yeah, we all know JT is amazing (Tavares, that is – but Timberlake is pretty rad too). He shocked me with his production, I really thought he would’ve been a Stamkos in his first pro season. But as of late it is Trent Hunter who has grabbed my attention on the Isle’s squad. TH is averaging over point a game and a +/- on the good side.

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