Here are your Puck Headlines: a glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media.
• Notice anything peculiar about the image here? How about the fact that it features two different AHL teams in white sweaters? From UniWatch (via JP): "Hershey and Bridgeport both came out wearing white sweaters, the Bears with chocolate-colored sleeves and the Sound Tigers with blue sleeves. Numbers only on back, no names. To start the second, Bridgeport was wearing its blue practice sweaters, which had no names or numbers." [UniWatch]
• Well, if nothing else, those who said Nazem Kadri(notes) would open the season in Toronto were never going to be wrong. He's among a few key cuts for the Toronto Maple Leafs today. [CBC Sports]
• Very interesting cuts today by the Edmonton Oilers, including Ryan O'Marra(notes), Liam Reddox(notes) and Alexandre Giroux(notes) on waivers and Linus Omark(notes) down to the AHL. Dan Tencer reported that Omark did not go quietly.
• Jim Matheson on how Ryan Jones(notes) beat out Reddox in Edmonton. [Edmonton Journal]
• Rich Clune and Erik Ersberg(notes) are on waivers from the Los Angeles Kings, with Ersberg expected to be snatched up. Congrats to all the Jonathan Bernier(notes) fantasy owners. [LA Kings Insider]
• Ken Campbell with some potentially discouraging news: "If the NHL and its on-ice officials can't come to an agreement this week, expect to see scab officials working the regular season games. The two sides are expected to meet in New York Monday and after a number of times when an agreement looked imminent, things have fallen off the rails." As much as we all bitch about them, we don't want to see NHL refs replaced with underlings. [THN]
• The Willful Caboose with one of the most pressing issues of our time: Should NHL arenas other than the one in Chicago stop playing "Chelsea Dagger"? [Willful Caboose]
• Will the New Jersey Devils have to say goodbye to Colin White(notes) or Dainius Zubrus(notes) due to their cap crisis? [NJ.com]
• Bangin' Panger believes it's found the ugliest hockey hat in existence. That it's for the Philadelphia Flyers is, we believe, coincidental. [Bangin' Panger]
• Meanwhile, in better Flyers fashion news, goalie Sergei Bobrovsky's(notes) mask is pretty cool for its Cold War iconography. Congrats to Big Bob for winning a job on the Flyers' roster, too. [The 700 Level]
• For what feels like the fifth year on a row, Drew Stafford(notes) is "making strides" with the Buffalo Sabres. [Sabres]
• The Carolina Hurricanes took on SKA of the KHL today in an exhibition game, and the blow-by-blow was tweeted. [@Canes_gameday]
• The Dallas Stars make their cuts, including preseason darling Aaron Gagnon(notes). [Defending Big D]
• NHL Network presents its 2010-11 schedule, including Mike Modano's(notes) return to Dallas as a Detroit Red Wings player and Dany Heatley's(notes) return to Ottawa. [NHL]
• Will the unproven members of the Chicago Blackhawks (i.e. reinforcements) wilt under the pressure? [Hockey Independent]
• Good roundup of NHL in Europe news from our old friend Stu Hackel. [Slap Shot]
• Zdeno Chara(notes) of the Boston Bruins on the small doors at Tesla Arena in Prague: "Those doors have been here for I don't know how many years; I don't think they are going to make it fit for me. This building hasn't changed. They updated and made a little nicer locker room, but it is the same building." [NHL.com]
• Ten predictions for the 2010-11 Bruins season, including the fact that Tim Thomas(notes) won't be traded. [Stanley Cup of Chowder]
• The first gallery of our Create-a-Sports-Illustrated-Cover art contest will be up Tuesday. This one by David Cicirelli is an early favorite.
• Among Elliotte Friedman's 30 Thoughts: "Been awhile since a forward as creative as Versteeg was in the Toronto lineup. Jim Hughson was wondering why the winger uses such a long stick. He said it was on the advice of Jeremy Jackson, a junior teammate in Lethbridge. Jackson, listed as five-foot-10, had 102 points in 65 games during their only season together. He told Versteeg that a longer stick would give him better leverage on his shot and more options with the puck, especially for a smaller player. Good thinking." [CBC Sports]
• Don't get too comfortable with line combinations with Guy Boucher in Tampa. [Raw Charge]
• The bad news: Defenseman Matthias Ohlund will miss about two weeks with an inflamed knee. The good news. The Tampa Bay Lightning have until 2016 for him to heal up thanks to that spiffy contract (and he'll only be earning $1 million then!). [Lightning Strikes]
• Ruslan Fedotenko(notes) turns his tryout contract into a one-year deal with the New York Rangers and his former coach with Tampa, John Tortorella. [Blueshirts Blog]
In which Nicklas Backstrom(notes) of the Washington Capitals attributes his strength to a jar of "thunder honey" in the kitchen. [Japers' Rink]
• Finally, Leahy passes along this video from earlier in the year. According to the comments on YouTube, this is St. Louis area high school hockey. This is also one of the single greatest uses of the EASY button you will ever witness:
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