Haggerty's Morning Skate: Dineen deserves another shot

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Here are the links from around the hockey world, and all of the stories I’m reading with summer definitely here based on the weather outside.

*Ken Hitchcock signs a one-year deal with the St. Louis Blues coming off a lame-duck year behind the bench. One would say this is the coaching contract version of the last stop saloon for Hitch in St. Louis.

*Tim Riday gives an NHL Draft primer for a Flyers team that will get a chance at a very good player with their top 10 pick.

*Don Cherry thinks that Kevin Dineen deserves another shot at being a head coach in the NHL, and I am in 100 percent agreement with him.

*PHT writer Cam Tucker has Jon Cooper admitting that the Lightning were taken to the “school of hard knocks” by the Rangers in the third period of Game 6, and it should serve as a lesson. The question is whether Tampa Bay’s players will learn it quickly enough to apply it for Game 7 at Madison Square Garden. The bet here: it won’t. King Henrik and the Rangers have never lost a Game 7 on home ice, and there’s no reason to think that will start now.

*Speaking of the Rangers, Pierre LeBrun has more on the big night from Derick Brassard in collecting a hat trick. Some have also talked about Rick Nash snapping out of his slump, but let’s be honest: Nash suddenly scoring in the third period with New York already holding a 4-1 lead might be the most Rick Nash thing of all time.

*Michael Russo says that the Minnesota Wild will sit on the sidelines when it comes to free agency given their cap situation.

*The Edmonton Oilers have a little bit longer to make a decision on one of their second round picks, or risk losing him to the NHL Draft process again.

*The Arizona Coyotes have hired a fancy stats wizard as one of their assistant GMs. Hey, why not? It worked so well for the Maple Leafs and Oilers, didn’t it? Right?

*For something completely different: Toucher and Rich go through their draft of the best summer movies. Rich has the Karate Kid as a summer movie, but I’ve got to lodge a protest on that one. Just because the movie used Banarama’s “Cruel Summer” on its soundtrack doesn’t mean it’s a summer move.

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