The one thing that I’m going to take away from All-Star Game Media Day actually happened before player availability.
The San Jose Sharks christened a brand-new outdoor street hockey rink at Roosevelt Park, and after most of the media had left, Brent Burns, Joe Pavelski and Erik Karlsson were still out there, playing street hockey with local kids and a few mascots, including SJ Sharkie. And after Pavelski and Karlsson had left, Burns was still out there, hooting and hollering like a madman, playfully cross-checking and spearing the mascots, setting up the kids to score and just generally acting like a big kid.