from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

- So maybe Michel Therrien couldn’t live with P.K. Subban in Montreal, but he sure couldn’t live without him, either.

- How many hundreds of millions more in subsidies from Arizona taxpayers now is it going to take to keep the Coyotes in the desert? Never stops, does it, for a franchise that has been on life support for nearly two decades, even preceding the absurd land-grab move to Glendale where it never belonged.

- And the Oscar for best hockey movie ever goes to “Net Worth,” the story of Ted Lindsay’s battle to start a Players’ Association in the mid-1950s, based on the book of the same name written by David Cruise and Allison Griffiths.

- Finally, not quite sure what this means about the Islanders’ future, but American Pharoah is scheduled to drop the first puck at the 2019-20 home opener.

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