from Matt Porter of the Boston Globe,

- Had a chuckle when seeing several betting outlets list Sergei Fedorov as the favorite to be the Red Wings’ next coach. Fedorov, currently coaching CSKA Moskva in the KHL, has been persona non grata in Detroit since signing a front-loaded offer sheet with Carolina in 1998, and spurning the Wings for Anaheim in 2003. The Hall of Famer’s No. 91 remains unretired — though out of circulation — in Motown.

- Wayne Gretzky’s last Edmonton jersey, worn during Game 4 of the 1988 Cup Final, sold for $1.452 million at an auction this past week. That reportedly made it the most valuable hockey jersey of all time, besting Paul Henderson’s Team Canada 1972 Summit Series jersey ($1.3 million). Bidding began at $250,000. Gretzky was wearing the champagne-stained Nike sweater when the Oilers won their fourth Stanley Cup. He donned it on two nights: when the lights went out at Boston Garden in the second period of Game 4, and when the game was replayed from the start two days later in Edmonton.

- ESPN rinkside reporter Emily Kaplan, formerly of the Globe, asked about the highs and lows of covering a long playoff run: “Well, the low part is my plants right now because they are all dead.”

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