Here are all the links from around the hockey world, and what I’m reading, while happy to finally have a little rain at the end of one of the driest months of July on record in Boston.
*Jason Botchford has a list of players that the Vancouver Canucks should go after, and that lists includes David Krejci interestingly enough.
*Jamie Benn says he didn’t have one thought of leaving the Dallas Stars, and feels like his best years still lay ahead of him.
*Oil defenseman Oscar Klefbom is throwing some shade at Taylor Hall on his way out the door after getting traded to the New Jersey Devils.
*Former Buffalo Sabres forward Jochen Hecht has called it a career.
*Brandon Wheat Kings GM Kelly McCrimmon may be among the many being wooed to the new NHL expansion franchise in Las Vegas.
*PHT writer Cam Tucker, by way of the Globe’s Kevin Paul Dupont, has NHL referee Don Henderson undergoing neck surgery, and fearing his career is over after the nasty hit from behind he took from Dennis Wideman.
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*For something completely different: is it good when your US Presidential candidate is compared to Emperor Palpatine and nobody blinks an eyelash?