from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

We have already moved past it, haven’t we, onto the next story in a life replete with endless news cycles and an inexhaustible amount of fodder over which to be outraged and/or titillated?

Except for Artemi Panarin, his wife, Alysa Znarok, and their families living in Russia, that is.

The scandal here is not that Panarin was charged with having assaulted an 18-year-old woman in Latvia in 2011 by an unreliable third party with personal and political axes to grind by the name of Andrei Nazarov.

Rather, it is that those ostensibly specious claims created enough psychological damage to Panarin that the elite winger has been forced off the ice to deal with the repercussions, whether real or imagined.

How sinister is that?...

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Finally, why do I always get the impression that when Steve Yzerman speaks up in support of some systemic change to the system — such as postponing the 2021 entry draft — it is rarely to benefit the greater good, but rather to benefit his team?

But that was always the way of the Red Wings in the days of the dynasty for which Yzerman played, yes?