Thursday Chum Bucket: Shootout wins now featuring 100% less Handzus
Your daily assortment of links to news and analysis from around the hockey world.
- Recaps from the Sharks' 4-3 shootout win over Edmonton. [Fear The Fin] [Mercury News] [CSN Bay Area] [Bay Area Sports Guy] [NHL.com] [The Copper & Blue]
- Logan Couture lives for these games. [CSN Bay Area]
- All wins are good wins for the Sharks at this point but the consequences of losing to the Oilers last night would have been fairly significant. [Working the Corners]
- Checking in from the GM meetings, where the NHLPA has agreed in principle to vote on grandfathering in a mandatory visor rule, general managers led by Doug Wilson are intent on reducing goaltender equipment and hybrid icing was met with opposition from the union, who prefer a no-touch system. [LeBrun]
- Yes, Alain Vigneault sits on leads. No, he isn't the only coach to do so. [Canucks Army]
- Five reasons we're closing in on the worst trade deadline of all time ever. [Backhand Shelf]
- Former Sharks prospect Charlie Coyle was Kronwalled last night in Detroit. No supplemental discipline coming, though. [Puck Daddy]
- Marian Gaborik to the Kings? Probably not. [Jewels From The Crown]
- Charting a rational course for the inevitable Calgary rebuild. [Flames Nation]