• Lol, the Blackhawks still haven't shaved their beards. [Getty]
• Brandon Saad will probably return to the Chicago Blackhawks. But what will it cost to re-sign the restricted free agent? [Chicago Sun-Times]
• The future is strong in goal for the Lightning with Andrei Vasilevskiy manning the crease ... eventually as a starter probably. [InGoal]
• Former Edmonton interim coach Todd Nelson will succeed Jeff Blashill as the head coach of Detroit’s AHL affiliate, the Grand Rapids Griffins. [Detroit Free Press]
• Flyers general manager Ron Hextall has talked with former defenseman Kimmo Timonen about rejoining the organization. [Second City Hockey]
• What about those Canadian television ratings for the Stanley Cup Final? They failed to deliver to some degree for Rogers in the first year of the mega new TV contract. [Yahoo]
• Tampa fans welcomed their Lightning home to hero's cheers after losing in the Cup Final to the Chicago Blackhawks. With video! [Lightning Shout]
• Geoff Ward and Alain Nasreddine will join the New Jersey Devils coaching staff as assistants to head coach John Hynes. [Devils]
• What was Dan Bylsma’s toughest coaching decision of his career? [Buffalo Hockey Beat]
• Did the NHL hint that Ottawa forward Mark Stone won the Calder Trophy? [Sens Shot]
• The time is right for the NHL in Hamilton, Ontario? Sigh … here we go again. [Hamilton Spectator]
• Jim Rutherford’s legacy with the Pittsburgh Penguins will be shaped in the next two weeks with the draft and free agency. After one year, his legacy hasn't been great. [Tribune-Review]
• The Capitals re-signed defenseman Nate Schmidt. [Stars and Sticks]
• This sounds heartbreaking: “Families of 11 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey team players killed in a 2011 plane crash are to be paid a fraction of what their attorneys had asked for in compensation, their defense lawyers said Monday.” [The Moscow Times]
• On potential changes to the Memorial Cup format. [Buzzing the Net]
• If you’re the Flames, what do you do with prolific, yet older players like Mark Giordano or Jiri Hudler who will be free agents after next season. [Flames Nation]
• Goaltender Braden Holtby definitely deserves to be paid by the Washington Capitals. His numbers last season were just so prolific. [Todays Slapshot]
• Chris Chelios joins Team USA’s junior team as an assistant coach along with Danton Cole and Kevin Reiter. I can't wait to see how Chelios meshes with head coach Ron Wilson. This could be reality TV at its finest. [USA Hockey]
• A sit-down with former NHLer Turner Stevenson. [4th Line Hockey]
• A review of NHL16 by EA Sports. [Operation Sports]
• Finally, NHL 16 looks really sick ... like in a good sick way.
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