from Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun,

- Why is there training camp and why is there an NHL pre-season? Watch Nylander in his first game back against Detroit and the question is pretty much answered for you.

- The giant pressure spots in the NHL right now are San Jose, Minnesota and St. Louis. Peter DeBoer is on the clock with the Sharks and the vibe around the team seems so bad right now that Erik Karlsson is hinting he won’t sign to stay there next season. In Minnesota, after a great start, the Wild is playing horrible hockey, which tests rookie GM Paul Fenton for the very first time. And the whole year seems wrong in St. Louis, where the Blues are either slow or just play slow.

- A good chunk of media seems myopicly obsessed with John Chayka, the young GM of the Arizona Coyotes. Who knows? Maybe one of these years Chayka will actually manage a team that makes the playoffs. In the meantime, there’s a whole lot of hockey people I trust and believe who call the Coyotes front office hockey’s most dysfunctional. Somebody’s right here and somebody’s wrong. The question is: Who?

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