from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

- The NHL lost all claim to concern over cap integrity the moment the league allowed players on career-ending long-term injured reserve to be traded.

So enough with the sudden hand-wringing about exploiting the LTIR system the way Chicago (Patrick Kane) and Tampa Bay (Nikita Kucherov) did en route to their respective 2015 and 2021 Cup championships.

Are we certain that Ryan Kesler, on Anaheim’s LTIR since the start of 2019-20, waived his no-trade clause so he could be sent to Vegas in that deal for Evgenii Dadonov that was eventually negated by the NHL because the Ducks were on Dadonov’s no-trade list?

- Building through the draft on a five-year plan with Seattle, Ron Francis would have fit right in as the GM of an expansion team in the 1970s, wouldn’t he have- That was interesting the other night in Toronto, when the on-ice officials got together to reverse a tripping minor against Mark Giordano that had been called correctly in the first place.

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