from Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun,

- A sincere question for the hockey analytics community? Has a team with middle-of-the-road talent used statistical analysis to improve in any meaningful way? And please don’t use the Los Angeles Kings or Chicago Blackhawks as examples?

- As if the disparity between Western Conference and Eastern Conference wasn’t large enough in the NHL, we give you the injuries to Pavel Datsyuk, Jordan Staal, Derek Stepan and the unsigned centreman Ryan Johansan ... And I wonder, at 36 and being undersized, is being hurt all the time what Datsyuk now faces with the Detroit Red Wings.

- That was a little smug of NHL commissioner, Gary Bettman, all but chest thumping how his league has handled the kind of social issues the NFL is currently drowning over. Bettman seems to have forgotten his summer of hockey deaths and how he basically abdicated whatever part his league may have played in those tragedies.

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