I think the holidays stress everyone out — even athletes and coaches. People around the NHL seem a little tense.
Over in St. Louis, coach Andy Murray called out players by name after a loss to the Bruins. And now, rather than apologizing or clarifying, Murray is bizarrely standing by his jerky behavior. All of this [...]

Adrian Dater has an interesting plot twist in the Sundin To Rangers Show.
Like how about the Rangers moving Chris Drury to Colorado? Adrian Dater says it’s not impossible. He concocts a scenario where the Rangers waive Drury, Colorado claims him, and the Rangers are only on the hook for half of Drury’s salary. Because the [...]

Geez. The Isles had to know that after losing three in a row, the Penguins were going to be looking for a win in a big way.
And the Penguins had to know the Isles have been struggling, pretty much from minute one of the season.
But I don’t think anyone saw last night’s 9-2 blowout coming. [...]

Lately, there’s been a lot of talk about how to protect NHL players. Two weeks ago, Don Cherry was going on about it for like eight minutes. I wish I could follow what he says. I think he might have said something about no-touch icing potentially saving lives, but I’m not quite sure. To be [...]

Mark Parrish is joining the Dallas Stars, presumably to provide some offense and some defensive responsibility to the struggling team.
Goalie Marty Tuco will be happy to have another defense-oriented player playing in front of him.
I also suspect the Stars wanted a new character guy in the room, as the team seems to be losing discipline [...]

Just some quick weekend notes that fascinated me:

The Bruins have been playing with an incorrectly measured faceoff dot. I can’t believe it took so long for anyone to realize (someone from the press caught it) and I can’t believe those dots aren’t done off of some kind of stencil.
Goalie coach Andy Moog is [...]

I think the one thing that unites us as humans is our curiosity over how the Islanders ended up with that crazy fisherman logo.
Chris Botta has brought us closer to understanding what happened.
It’s an interesting story, but one that picks up after the disastrous creative choices had been made. I would have loved to have [...]

I like the beginning of the NHL season because you get to see interesting people as offensive leaders. Right now, on NHL.com, you can see Keith Tkachuk as the NHL’s leading goal scorer and Aaron Voros as the NHL’s point leader. I’m not sure that’s going to last a whole season.
In New York, one of [...]

In case you were wondering, it’s a big pain in the rear preparing an NHL team to play in Europe. The Rangers and Lightning are making their way across Europe, getting ready to play each other. It’s hard not to picture Chevy Chase driving everyone around. Vinny Prospal is even keeping a diary on Erik [...]

I get that it’s somewhat unsurprising the Blackhawks are trying to jettison Nikolai Khabibulin. They’ve just got way too much expensive goaltending. It’s like Mr. and Mrs. Howell picked the goalies. all items
But to put him on waivers? The Blackhawks are obviously hoping Khabibulin is claimed off waivers, but why would anyone claim him and [...]