Elsewhere around the rink:
- Rep. Janice Schakowsky (D-IL) to Gary Bettman on CTE denial- 'Put that in your pipe and smoke it.' The Hockey News
- Not all bad starts doom NHL teams to season long failure- take these cases in point. Sportsnet
- Young NHLers on the cusp of playing in their ninth NHL games are biting their fingernails. The Globe And Mail