from Gene Collier of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,

When the hockey season started, the number of officially declared presidential candidates was zero. Now it’s 379. OK, I know it’s more like 12, but Donald Trump could throw his hair into the ring at any minute. Fun hockey/politics fact: Every declared candidate to this point and every member of the rosters on both Stanley Cup finalists has a better chance to be president than Donald Trump.

When the hockey season started, Penguins coach Mike Johnston was seen sprinting in the direction of the Jack Adams Trophy Award, honoring the NHL coach of the year. Before it ended, Johnston’s firing was called for on the Nightly Sports Call 662 times. All right,that’s not official — you might have done it more times yourself.

When the hockey season started, Brian Williams had a job and Dan Bylsma did not. Williams eventually would get himself ejected from the NBC anchor chair for claiming that his helicopter had been forced down by a rocket-propelled grenade in Iraq, and for telling David Letterman he once played goal for the Wilkes-Barre Scranton Penguins.

That’s actually half true.

Bylsma, the former Penguins coach, will now be telling the Buffalo Sabres they can resemble a pro hockey team simply by playing a style he once described as Ruslan Fedotenko Hockey, which sounds like a claim Brian Williams might make.

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