Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. Feel free to complain about it.

Ever since the Blackhawks collapsed into a juddering mass of two losses in a row followed by as many wins, it seems all anyone can talk about with regard to the Central Division is how well the Blue Jackets are doing.

The Blue Jackets are doing very well indeed. They've gotten points in their last 10 games and climbed to 28 points in 29 games, which is nothing to sneeze at considering they started the year 5-12-2. They're now just one game below .500, and routinely making good accountings of themselves against good teams. They famously swept the Red Wings in a home and home, took three of four points from Vancouver, and lost a pair of games to Chicago though those were in overtime and a shootout.

And now everyone's dreaming big. They're just two points out of a playoff spot and are currently one of the hottest teams in the NHL, if not the hottest, depending upon whom you ask and how much you value winning in regulation. Certainly, for a team that was so phenomenally bad last year to go 10 games in a row without losing is an admirable feat.

But any people trying to sit there and tell you this is a playoff team, or even one that should be in the discussion for making it, are kidding themselves.

Everyone loves an underdog story, and this is perhaps the biggest in the NHL this season; but are we really going to believe that a team currently 11th in the West, which finished 30th last season, is going to keep up this magical run long enough to be a serious contender for anything whatsoever?

Let's start with the most obvious fact that yes this team is winning a lot of games, but barely doing it in regulation. Of those 10 games from which they've gotten points, all but one of them went to overtime, and five went to a shootout. That speaks to a team that's gotten incredibly lucky, and is playing very hard to not get results one way or another in regulation. And of those 10 games, only two have been played on the road. They also have two more in this lengthy homestand, against Nashville and Calgary, and it would be shocking for them to not get points from those as well.

Then there's the fact that Sergei Bobrovsky is playing like a Russian Patrick Roy.

He's allowed more than two in just one of his last 11 games, coughing up five on 39 to Dallas, and despite that ugly night at the office, he has still allowed just 15 goals in those 11 appearances. It's an honestly impressive and incredible run — incredible as in, "if someone told you about it in October you wouldn't have believed them" — one in which his GAA has dropped to just 2.00, and his save percentage exploded to .932. That's thanks to a 1.34 GAA and .955 save percentage in those games, and it's just crazy.

What no one seems to remember about this is that it's Sergei Bobrovsky we're talking about. It's also the Columbus Blue Jackets we're talking about. At some point, the stifling defense they're playing of late has to go away, and it seems much more likely that Bobrovsky will start playing like the guy whose career numbers before landing in Columbus were 2.73 and .909 at some point in the very near future.

Say, when they play six road dates in seven games over the course of 13 days starting on Saturday. How long ago was it, exactly, that Steve Mason started his NHL career off looking like one of the greatest goalies in NHL history?

The Blue Jackets, are, I'll say again, the Blue Jackets.

Dead last in the league in goals scored despite playing the most games of almost everyone. Scoring 60 times in 29 games (not counting the team's four shootout winners, since they don't count) is not exactly conducive to winning hockey games, and indeed, they've netted just two goals in their last three games, none of which they lost in regulation. Think that's sustainable?

And even if they keep winning in a way that even remotely approximates this recent success, how much ground can they logically expect to make up? They started this streak in the Western Conference's basement. Now they're 11th. After 10 games of not losing, they improved four spots and are still two points out with almost everyone in front of them having games in hand. It's nearly impossible to make up that kind of ground when you're playing nothing but intra-conference games, and especially if you're giving at least a point to every opponent you come across. At 28 points with 19 games remaining, and the generally-accepted postseason cutoff point being 55 points, the Blue Jackets can only afford five more games in regulation to get there (13-5-1). That doesn't seem likely.