from Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun,

- The general managers I’ve polled believe young Quinn Hughes is the runaway winner of the Norris Trophy, as best defenceman. And in some years, not this one, he’d be an MVP candidate …Bobby Orr is the youngest player ever to win the Norris. He was 19. Then, just to be certain, he won when he was 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 26.

- I like the rather complete Carolina Hurricanes to come out of the East. They’re first in the NHL in penalty-killing, second on the power play. Penalty-killing is more important in the playoffs than the power play. But since Jake Guentzel got to the Hurricanes, he has 24 points in 16 games and Carolina has points in 13 of those games.

- Boo-hoo to the players (families) on the Arizona Coyotes already complaining about moving to Salt Lake City. The wives on the Atlanta Flames hated moving to Calgary in 1980. Forty-four years later, that’s a rock-solid franchise and a great place to live. I covered the bankruptcy hearings of the Coyotes in 2009. The NHL should have moved out of Arizona back then.

- Don’t know of anyone who hates losing more than Steve Yzerman. Which would make him all but apoplectic over the last quarter of the Red Wings season.

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