In Damien Cristodero’s blog yesterday he had some quotes from Martin St. Louis’s exit interview. On the team being close to being a playoff contender, he says “We’re not that far away. I totally believe that”. Coming from St. Louis, I can buy what he is saying about how close he thinks the team is. All of his answers are great, so do head over and give it a read in full.
Here are your links for the week:
Your Lightning links:
- Even though it ended a loss, Cory Schneider’s start in Game 5 got people talking that maybe Cory Schneider wouldn’t be traded away by Vancouver. Damien Cristodero goes through some other goaltending options that maybe the Lightning would be pursuing (Tampa Bay Times)
- Could Luongo be traded to the Lightning? Cam Tucker from the Vancouver Sun and David Shoalts from the Globe and Mail weighs in
- A former Lightning coach (tenure 1999-2001) Steve Ludzik opens up with his battle with Parkinson’s (Toronto Sun)
- Teddy Purcell tweeted a photo of St. John’s version of beaches… which includes icebergs
The rest of your links after the jump…
Your links from around the NHL:
- The Rangers won last night to force a Game 7 on Thursday (TSN)
- Chris Neil and Brandon Prust dropped the gloves last night, Puck Daddy has the video
- Mike Smith leads the Phoenix Coyotes to the second round of the playoffs for the first time in their history in Phoenix (Puck Daddy)
- David Backes, Patrice Bergeron and Pavel Datsyuk are named Selke finalists (NHL.com)
- Brian Campbell, Jordan Eberle and Matt Moulson are named Lady Byng finalists (NHL.com)
- Sad news as the Florida Panthers end the sale of rats at the team store (Puck Daddy)
- The Royal Half writes the Sharks eulogy over at Puck Daddy and it’s awesome
- Puck the Media writes why the Western Conference second round won’t be a ratings disaster
- Alex Ovechkin’s epic goal celebration after scoring the game tying goal in Sunday’s game (RMNB)
- Flyers coach Peter Laviolette calls Claude Giroux the “best player in the world” in a collection of some great quotes said after Game 6 (Broadstreet Hockey)
- Evgeni Malkin calls the first-round loss to the Flyers as “the most” disappointing defeat in his NHL career (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
- There were a lot of problems with the Penguins team but biggest problem had to be the defense (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
- Where should the Penguins go from here? That’s what James Mirtle asks (Globe and Mail)
- Is the end of Hockey Night in Canada coming? Most think that when the contract is up in two years that Bell and Rogers will outbid them for the national broadcasting rights (Financial Post)
- Karl Moore on what hockey has done right in non-traditional markets (Forbes)
- Ellen Etchingham on the culture of hitting, the NHLPA and the Armstrong Paradox (Backhand Shelf)
- For the ladies, The Hockey Junkies deconstruct Cosmo’s ‘Hottest Hockey Players’ list
