Here are all the links from around the hockey world, and what I’m reading while both the heat and the humidity kind of stink right now.
*So here’s a little something to break up the quiet stretch of the NHL offseason: A thirty-something Connecticut man was charged with attempting to impersonate 78-year-old Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs in order to get out of paying one of his debts. His name is Jeffrey Jacobs, so the last name fits his hare-brained scheme. Amazingly he had the audacity to have somebody bill the Bruins owner for work rendered by a Tree Service Company. But one has to wonder how many dozens and dozens of times this dude has pulled this before finally getting caught and charged by police. What a racket.
*The Vancouver Canucks are trying to figure out a way to get out from under the Loui Eriksson contract, and I haven’t stopped laughing since the minute they signed him to that outlandish deal that was destined to be a bust.
*The new marketing chief for the Ottawa Senators faces a difficult, uphill climb after a disastrous year from top to bottom in the organization.
*Brooks Orpik returns to the Washington Capitals a month after being traded away and bought out of his contract. Okay then.
*Want to own Mario Lemieux’s castle in Quebec? All you need to do is pony up $22 million, and it could be yours.
*For something completely different: Was Step Brothers the end of a comedy era? Ummm, what does this even mean?