Morning Skate: Devils the favorite in Shattenkirk Derby

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Here are all the links from around the hockey world, and what I’m reading, while wondering why the NHL doesn’t just do the midnight open to free agency like the NBA. I mean, I’m glad they don’t. But it would be kind of exciting, wouldn’t it?

*PHT writer and FOH (Friend of Haggs) Jason Brough has the New Jersey Devils as the favorites to land Kevin Shattenkirk. I’ve heard they are willing to outspend everybody else and that might be the deciding factor for Shattenkirk when combined with the geography that they were in the preferred East Coast corridor for him. I can tell you one thing. There’s no way on Earth he’s going to wind up with Bruins, who have Charlie McAvoy and Brandon Carlo on the right side and want to remain cautious with the cap.

*Via The New York Post: The NHL’s form of communism is working when you compare it to the NBA where 20 teams have virtually no shot of getting top-level players and therefore have no way of really competing for an NBA title.

*Brian Elliott appears to be the latest attempt a solution for the annual goaltending problems for the Philadelphia Flyers. Yeah, good luck to them.

*The Wild traded Marco Scandella and Jason Pominville to the Buffalo Sabres on Friday for Tyler Ennis, Markus Foligno and a draft pick. I fully suspect that the Bruins kicked the tires on this one, but that they were far more interested in a trade for Jonas Brodin than they were for a bigger, more limited guy like Scandella. Looking at the players involved, I’m also not sure how much of a match that a Ryan Spooner-led package would have been for them.

*No. 2 overall pick Nolan Patrick had another abdominal surgery prior to getting drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers and will be out the next 4-6 weeks.

*Former Bruins defenseman Mark Stuart was bought out by the Winnipeg Jets, and one has to wonder how much time the rugged, stay-at-home D-man has left in his NHL career. He was a good kid and a very tough customer, but he was never going to be able to fully live up to the first round draft pick that Boston used to select him.  Still, he carved out a nice career as a tough stay-at-home guy.

*For something completely different: Looks like Disney is finally modernizing some of its more antiquated rides.

 

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