Jack Todd: Canadiens' drive for 25 begins with renewed optimism

With apologies to the analytics crowd, a hockey season (any hockey season) is about stories.
There are intertwined stories that must be untangled, one strand at a time. There are little stories you find in a corner of the dressing room, write in 30 minutes and forget. There are stories writers tell each other while waiting at airports, stories teams make up for nosy reporters, stories that dominate an entire news cycle and vanish.
Then there’s the over-arching narrative, the story that dom