Southern Hospitality: An Aeros Primer

Well Wilderness, I'm not sure how you rank quite as high as you do, but the one and only Ms. Conduct has written a detailed primer on the Houston Aeros for you. You should consider yourselves special and monumentally lucky, since she wouldn't do this for just anyone. Well... OK, she probably would, because she is an amazing human being. Still, this is a great piece of writing, something you don't often get here. 

Enjoy, and make sure and show her the love in the comment section.

Here's your Aeros Primer so that you can feel like a big ol' smarty pants Sunday and your friends will be all, "Whoa!" and you'll be all, "Thanks, Ms.Conduct!" and I'll wink at you knowingly.

The good news is, a rather brutal schedule up until now gives way to a manageable February and an absolutely luscious March where they have 14 games but never leave Texas.

Mike Yeo seems to have struck a great balance of offensive attackiness and defensive get-off-my-lawn-iness. He's gotten full-team commitment to high quality defensive play, and has the offense playing a really strong puck possession game that is just fun to watch.

And even when they're not 100% clicking, they more often than not still manage to win, at least lately, where they're 13-2-0-1 since the new year.

Take a moment to cuddle with that stat: 13-2-0-1. Wow.

Tyler Cuma has come along nicely lately. He (and all the younger d-men) still bust out the occasional bonehead move, but I don't worry about that stuff from the young guys. What I love about him is that he's one of the few guys you'll see anymore who can throw a really pretty hip check. Love the kid going old school.

Hackett's shown steady growth and plenty of determination through the season. Case in point: After a particularly brutal game a while back, he all but insisted that Yeo start him in the next one. Promising he wouldn't disappoint and he held up his end of the deal with a solid win. Love seeing that kind of chutzpa from a rookie tender.

So, there's your farm team in a nut shell. Get out and support the boys and see some of your future (and past) Wild.

Editor's note:

The game starts Sunday at 1PM, and tickets are available. Make sure you come down for the game. It's not every day you get to watch the top Wild prospects live. Buy tickets HERE. 

By the way, this was the standings in the AHL West as of this writing: