from Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun,

- You see it the first time and you’re not sure what to think.

You watch it a second time and it looks even better on the replay.

Then you watch it and stop it and rewind and watch it again in slow motion: Just to be sure. I was trying to come up with a goal I’ve seen in person that was better than the one Connor McDavid scored against the Maple Leafs on Monday.

I covered a lot of Wayne Gretzky games when he was scoring 200-points regularly with the Edmonton Oilers. I don’t remember seeing anything as fast and slow and quick and skilled as the one McDavid scored on Michael Hutchinson....

- Pekke Rinne scored a goal. Better he should be stopping goals, which he hasn’t done very well this season for the Nashville Predators.

- The Arizona Coyotes have lost 22 games. Phil Kessel has scored goals in two of those defeats, 11 of them one-goal games. Kessel, with just three even-strength goals, is having an equal opportunity season, minus-10 at home, minus-9 on the road. No one else on the Coyotes is worse than Derek Stepan’s minus-6.

more on the first topic plus other notes too...

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