To save you the time of hitting Wiki, the closest translation is "Storm and Stress". This applies directly to the mass hysteria that has been surrounding the Chicago Blackhawks all summer long.

Last week one of the newest Hawks, Marian Hossa, had arthroscopic surgery on a rotator cuff tear that, by all accounts, had existed for over a year.

While no surgery can be truly considered "minor", the simple facts are:

• A rotator cuff injury, especially to a hockey player (as opposed to a pitcher or quarterback), is less critical than a tear at the front of the shoulder, or a separation. (see: Havlat, Martin). Once the cuff is cleaned out and stitched up, it generally lasts a lifetime.
  
• Hossa had the surgery in July. That means he spends half his rehab time doing physical therapy while there's no hockey being played. Once hockey is being played, it's early in the season, and the early part of the schedule Isn't all that rough. You can afford to skate with no Hossa in October more than you can in January.
  
• Hossa goes onto the Long Term Injured Reserve list. As long as Hossa's on LTIR, half his cap hit vanishes. This expands Joel Quenneville's roster options, and allows Stan Bowman to showcase the players for a longer period for prospective trades. It also means the Hawks can procrastinate on applying any cap hits that performance bonuses to players like Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews to next year's cap.

So while everyone is freaking out and wondering whether this is all Dale Tallon's fault, or John McDonough's fault, or Hossa's fault, it's most likely all a big deal over nothing at all.

He has a 12-year contract (although, for all intents and purposes, it's really 8). He's missing two months of it, at the beginning of a season.

In this brave new world for the Blackhawks, the real hockey doesn't start until April.

So everyone needs to just chill the hell out. There's a long way to go before the book on the 2009-10 Chicago Blackhawks is done being written.