Quick Strikes for Saturday, February 7

Tonight will be a milestone for Lightning assistant coach Rick Bowness, it’ll be the 2,000^th game that he’s been involved with as a coach. Scotty Bowman is the other notable name of record who has achieved that feat in his career. [Tampa Bay Times]
Also tonight, much further north, the Nature Boy Ric Flair makes an appearance at the War Memorial and the Syracuse Crunch game against the Springfield Falcons. [Syracuse.com]
The Crunch dropped one to the Bridgeport Soundtigers last night in overtime. [Bolt Prospects]
Records were set in the Toronto Maple Leafs / New Jersey Devils game Friday night: Patrik Elias scored his 400th career goal and the Leafs lost their 11th consecutive game, a franchise record. [In Lou We Trust]
Evander Kane’s not getting out of Winnipeg any time soon – his trade potential goes to zero as he opts for season ending shoulder surgery. [CBC]
“The league and its fans aren’t rolling their eyes at [Evander] Kane the way they did [Sean] Avery, they’re genuinely baffled at how the Jets and Kane got to this place.” [Pension Plan Puppets]
The New York Rangers have suffered a blow in the crease as Henrik Lundqvist is out for at least three weeks with a vascular injury. [Blueshirt Banter]
Guys with bad contracts have less than no value sometimes. Others pass through waivers unclaimed by 29 other NHL teams. Welcome to the unmovable assets known as the NHL negative-value guys. Now praise them. [Grantland]
It’s part of a larger article of notes tied to Thursday night’s Red Wings – Avalanche game, but the interesting note is that news of a Detroit Red Wings / Colorado Avalanche alumni game will take place before their Stadium Series game in 2016 in Denver. [Denver Post]

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