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- I'll just use SCH's headline without comment: "Patrick Kane makes statement in tone deaf, unnecessary press conference appearance". [Second City Hockey]
- Other Chicago Blackhawks blogs and online communities feel similarly. [TCI]
- Former Blackhawk Dan Carcillo is officially calling it a career. [The Player's Tribune]
- Steven Stamkos is so much more than just a sniper. [TSN]
- As always, lots of good bits in Elliot Friedman's 30 Thoughts -- including the sense around the league being "we'll believe he's a free agent when we see it". [Sportsnet]
- Tampa Bay lot out on the 2018 IIHF World Junior Championships, but Buffalo is a finalist. [Syracuse.com]
- The NHL is going to use concussion spotters this year and ... what? [Hockey in Society]
- It's weird to link a links post in a links post but this collection has a lot of good material on P.K. Subban and his $10 million donation to the Montreal Children's Hospital. [Habs Eyes on the Prize]
- The Toronto Maple Leafs cashed in on a cadre of prospects, landing Michael Grabner from the New York Islanders. [Pension Plan Puppets]
- Some thing the Isles didn't get good value in return. [Lighthouse Hockey]
- More analysis of the deal. [The Leafs Nation]
- Clayton Stoner killed a grizzly bear, and now he's facing five criminal charges. [Puck Daddy]
- Dany Heatley has signed in the top German ice hockey league. His NHL career is likely over. [NBC]
- USA Hockey has released the divisions for the upcoming prospects game at Compuware Arena. [Detroit Free Press]
- Meet Bo Reichenback -- the newest member of the USA Ice Sledge Hockey team. [Paralympic.org]
- Max Sauve is headed to the University of Vermont. [Burlington Free Press]
- There's a new junior hockey team in Vancouver -- the Vancouver Rangers. [The Columbian]