Here are links from around the hockey world, and what I’m reading while Saluting Roberto Luongo for his 1,000thNHL game tonight.
-- Rob Rossi wants Pittsburgh Penguins fans to appreciate the ride the Pens have been on even if there are no guarantees they’ll win it again this season, with a tougher road ahead of them.
-- Carey Price got an ovation at the Bell Center, and it was a meaningful one for a player that’s had a pretty bad year in Montreal.
-- Another NHL regular season is winding up, and the Buffalo Sabres have once again clinched being the league’s worst team. So they’ve got that going for them . . . which is nice.
-- Good piece by FOH (Friend of Haggs) Alex Prewitt on the obsessive workout nature of Zdeno Chara, and why that keeps him going in the NHL at 41 years old.
-- How on Earth did Erik Staal manage to reinvigorate himself in Minnesota and once again become a 40-goal scorer with the Wild after looking like he was done at the end of his run in Carolina?
-- NHL players try to settle, once and for all, what the correct way is to button a dress shirt. This is simply a brain-buster.
Boston Bruins
-- For something completely different: So it turns out that spraying hand lotion all over a Mass State Trooper probably isn’t a smart move. Would could have guessed that?
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