The GM’s will have their first meeting of the season in Toronto today. Dan Rosen of NHL.com writes that the 1-3-1 system will be a hot button topic being discussed at the meetings.
In response to all the questions about Guy Boucher’s system, GM Steve Yzerman had some great quotes in Elliotte Friedman’s 30 thoughts this week. After saying he prefers a re-alignment system where teams play home-and-home every season, he said “Every fan should get a chance to watch Martin St. Louis and Steven Stamkos. And with all of you guys talking about the 1-3-1, every fan will be dying to see it.“
Your Lightning links:
- Jacques Lemaire defended Boucher’s coaching system. Great quote on former NHL coaches criticizing Boucher: “”They have the mike, and some guys with the mike try to coach. They couldn’t coach, so they go behind the mike because they couldn’t find a way to win. So they’re no big deal.” (Montreal Gazette)
- An article on assistant coach Martin Raymond who was inducted last month to the McGill University Sports Hall of Fame (Montreal Gazette)
- Carter Ashton is looking to follow in his father, Brent Ashton’s footsteps (NHL)
- Not often a guy readers agree with, Ryan Lambert seems to be the voice of reason in that Flyers-Tampa 1-3-1 story from last week
More links after the jump…
Your links from around the NHL:
- Milan Hejduk is announced the new captain of the Colorado Avalanche (TSN)
- The Hockey Hall of Fame inducted Ed Belfour, Doug Gilmour, Joe Nieuwendyk and Mark Howe into its Class of 2011 (TSN)
- The Anaheim Ducks claimed Hagman off of re-entry waivers, splitting his $3 million dollar salary with the Flames. The rest of the Northwest Division continues to laugh at the Flames (TSN)
- A sad story to link to: Over the weekend Kyle Fundytus, a Grade 11 student from Edmonton passed away after being struck in the neck with a puck during a minor-league game (Edmonton Journal)
- Hockey Canada will review the risks of block slap shots after the death of Fundytus (Globe and Mail)
- The NHL announces the creation of NHL Original Productions which is a partnership with Ross Greenburg Productions. The last collaboration between Greenburg and the NHL produced 24/7 Penguins/Capitals, so this is awesome news
- Puck Daddy looks at how Ross Greenburg plans to revolutionize NHL on TV
- Larry Brooks writes that the NHLPA believes it has discovered unreported revenues by certain NHL clubs last season (New York Post)
- Last week the NHL launched their French, Russian, Finnish, Swedish, Czech, Slovenian and German sites. No idea if the translations make sense or if its like they just fed NHL.com through google translate
- After a two week hiatus, The Royal Half comes back with a monster Pundays post
- John Carlson of the Caps in a carpet cleaning commercial. I’ll give you five minutes, come back when you are done laughing (RMNB)
- Because I have a love for celebrity gossip, Just Jared has Brad Richards and Olivia Munn dating
- Joe Haggerty thinks that Milan Lucic and the Bruins should embrace the role of the villain
- Jibblescribbits compares two young players on the Avalanche, Matt Duchene and Gabriel Landeskog, having two very different starts to their season
- J.P. on Alex Ovechkin losing his mental edge (Puck Drunk Love)
- Even though we lost to them last night, Gary Lawless of the Winnipeg Free Press says that “despite having moved to Winnipeg and taken on a new name and colours, the Atlanta Thrashers still, unfortunately, exist” and that the team needs to raise its standards
- I’m sure every stadium has a few of these fans especially on a weekend game, but Arctic Ice Hockey has some thoughts on a few Jets fans that were fueled by idiocy and beer
- A really funny (and accurate) post on a 6 year old boy’s first Leafs game (Bitter Leaf Fan Page)
- Springing Malik has a look at how man games lost to injury and illness translate to salary cap hit losses
- Hockey in Society looks at the slow erosion of hockey homophobia
