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Hockey Notes On A Saturday Afternoon In December

12/03/2016 at 2:17pm EST

from Fluto Shinzawa of the Boston Globe,

- The Blue Jackets have the best power play in the league (25.9 percent) through 22 games, even though they’ve only gone on the man-advantage a league-low 58 times. In comparison, the Predators had 82 opportunities in the same amount of games.

- Dallas coach Lindy Ruff made John Klingberg a healthy scratch against Detroit on Tuesday. Klingberg’s coaches and teammates have compared him to Erik Karlsson. But Klingberg was given a seat in the press box because there’s been too much risk in his game.

- Ben Bishop has always known his time is coming to an end in Tampa Bay. Bishop will cede the net to Andrei Vasilevskiy, who is younger and cheaper. But Bishop may not finish the season with the Lightning given his performance. Through 16 games, Bishop is 7-9-0 with a 2.99 GAA and .902 save percentage. The plan was for the Lightning to carry both goalies through the season. But Bishop’s not playing well enough for Tampa to keep feeding him starts when Vasilevskiy (6-2-1, 2.24 GAA, .930 save percentage) has been the better goalie.

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