from Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun,

- This is why the Ottawa Senators basically gave Matt Murray to the Maple Leafs. They paid him to go away because they couldn’t trust him to be healthy. And the team and the coaching staff stopped believing in him. When that happens to any team you have no chance of success. Now Murray is a Leaf, and one game in he’s injured. And if you were wondering about him prior to the season, you have more reason to wonder now.

- If you add WHA goals to NHL goals, which hockey history has conveniently ignored, Gordie Howe is the all-time scoring leader with 975, 35 more than Wayne Gretzky. If you add the professional goals Alexander Ovechkin scored in Russia before coming to the NHL, he would be at 816 goals. Instead, right now, the official count is Gretzky at 894, Howe at 801, and Ovie at 780. Ovie will pass Howe midway through this season.

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