Quick Strikes for Saturday, Sept. 3

The Lightning/Crunch

• Jon Cooper: “I’m confident Kuch is going to sign back.” [Tampa Bay Times]
• The Big Ben trade that never was. [Tampa Bay Times]
• The Stockton Heat announced the signing of former Crunch fan fave Mike Angelidis. [StocktonHeat.com]/

The NHL

• Scott Gomez hangs ‘em up, and his hometown paper has the full story in detail. [Alaskan Dispatch News]
• Gomez’s old teammate on Broadway, Chris Drury, has been named an assistant general manager for the Rangers. [Blueshirt Banter]
• Ryan Carter is headed to the Wild’s training camp... on a PTO. [Hockey Wilderness]
• Tracking the Penguins’ all-time scoring sheet. [Pensburgh]
• The quest for mediocre Devils offense. [All About the Jersey]
• Because of the World Cup, the Blackhawks will be holding camp in Chicago, not the University of Notre Dame. [Second City Hockey]
• Playing the Red Wing Mythbusters: Tomas Tatar and Gustav Nyquist are bad together. [Winging It in Motown]
• Getting scientific about the Montreal Canadiens. [Eyes on the Prize]/

The Game

• Team North America won’t be held back by age. [NHL.com]
• But they’ll be without Sean Monahan./

Vincent Trocheck replacing injured F Sean Monohan at World Cup.

— Lance Hornby (@sunhornby) September 2, 2016

• More player replacements: Corey Perry will replace Jeff Carter. [Yahoo Sports]
• They’re dropping like flies. Consider David Krejci also out. [Boston Globe]
• Team USA will be taking over Columbus./

Team USA members arriving in town this weekend. Will have team dinner on Sunday evening, begin practice early Monday afternoon. #CBJ

— Aaron Portzline (@Aportzline) September 2, 2016