A couple days later, but the NHL has made public that Steve Downie was fined the maximum $2,500 allowed under the CBA for leaving the bench on a legal line change to become involved in an altercation in the game against the Rangers. Is it just me or the maximum of $2,500 seem like a drop in the bucket when fining an NHL player?
Here are your links for the week:
Your Lightning links:
- St. Louis is recovering from a scary injury: “I couldn’t see out of my left eye, how the blood rushed through the eye. Panic set in. I was very overwhelmed with the possibilities, you know.” (Sporting News)
- LeBrun and Burnside debate the Anisimov celebration (ESPN)
- Why the Lightning like Cory Conacher and are planning on signing him, just not right now. Why? Timing issues with giving him a contract this year will burn through the first year of his waiver exemption (Lightning Strikes)
- Gary Sheldon weighs in with his thoughts on our new conference from realignment (St. Petersburg Times)
- The top 10 best-selling jerseys during the month of November according to shop.NHL.com (Hockey Gear HQ)
The rest of your links after the jump…
Your links from around the NHL:
- The Kings fire coach Terry Murray, John Stevens named as interim (LA Times)
- The Royal Half recaps Terry Murray’s tenure as coach of the Kings
- There’s some rumour that Tony Granato of the Pittsburgh Penguins could become the new Kings coach (The Pensblog)
- The other rumour is that Darryl Sutter could become the new Kings coach (LA Kings Insider)
- Nikita Filatov is loaned to CSKA of the KHL. “In light of the fact that Filatov was suspiciously up until the wee hours of the morning responding to Formspring questions on a Monday (Paul MacLean’s “Monday is a day for work”) when the team had a scheduled practice, you had to know that something was amiss.” (The 6th Sens)
- The Devils traded Rod Pelley, Mark Fraser and a 7th round pick to the Ducks for Kurtis Foster and a minor league goaltender (Fire and Ice)
- Sportsnet magazine remembers the Lokomotiv tragedy. Great read
- Paul Bisonette brought 100 homeless individuals to a hockey game (AZ Central)
- Photos from the NY Post photoshoot of the Rangers
- Elliotte Friedman’s 30 Thoughts: Carlyle’s vacation is over
- Not hockey, but Sports Illustrated looks at the physical and psychological effects of an entire NFL team 25 years later. Grab a drink and a snack, this will take some to read
- Puck Daddy’s ‘The Player’ comments on wearing a visor and whether visors should be made mandatory
- Since getting a new coach, Ovechkin’s average ice time has gone up in the last four games by a minute and a half (Japers’ Rink)
- For the first time since February 10, 2008, Jagr returns to play in Washington. “And on Tuesday night, Jaromir Jagr comes home. Not his real home. Not even his fake home. D.C. is just some place from which Jagr took $40 million dollars and change; the pride of hockey faithful; and one huge, steaming, metaphorical dump of hockey.” (Russian Machine Never Breaks)
- DGB: A look at this year’s top rookies
- This weeks Pundays: Sam I Am and Canuck-T Four (The Royal Half)
- If you are into stats maybe you’ll enjoy this, Corey from Shutdown Line looks at the “scoring pace” of forwards of the Carolina Hurricanes
- The Sports Business Journal releases its 50 Most Influential People in Sports Business
- ESPN reporter Erin Andrews sues stalker for peephole videos (Yahoo)
- Ilya Bryzgalov continues to be one of the best interviews ever in NHL. SBN with a video of him on realignment
- Springing Malik with more unpublished Steigerwald notes on other players of the Washington Capitals not named Alex Ovechkin
