You gotta accentuate the positives, eliminate the negatives.

Kulfan dutifully recaps all the stuff we’ve known about what’s been going on in the hockey world of late, but does add a few bits of information, like Abdelkader talking about playing under Babcock. He also gets quotes from Jeff Blashill about trying to build mutual respect. I know what we would have gotten had he asked any of Blashill’s players to comment on that, but I’m kinda bummed he didn’t report even asking one.

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Usually Forbes’ contribution to hockey is their annual franchise valuations which tend to vary wildly from reality but are otherwise good conversation fodder.