Here are all the links from around the hockey world, and what I’m reading while keeping my head on a swivel for any more cheap shots from the Bengals.
*Fun NHL media roundtable with Sports Illustrated that covers a lot of ground about the experience of covering the league.
*FOH (Friend of Haggs) Greg Wyshynski has the concussion spotters yanking Edmonton goalie Cam Talbot during a rough Sunday night game.
*Oilers head coach Todd McLellan blasts his players for looking like the “Bad News Bears” after a rough loss to the Sabres.
*Could Jacob Trouba fit with the New York Rangers? It looks like things could stretch all the way to a Jan. 1 deadline.
*Do we really have to hear a group of Chicago Blackhawks players, including Captain Serious Jonathan Toews, sing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” at Wrigley over the weekend?
*There are plenty of ties that bind Sidney Crosby and Nathan MacKinnon both on the ice, and outside of it.
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*Lyle Richardson has all of the hottest NHL trade speculation early in the 2016-17 season. Warning: this is a slideshow.
*For something completely different: many of the details are starting to be revealed about the gritty, rated-R Wolverine movie that’s coming.