from Cam Cole of the Vancouver Sun,

Patrick Kaleta ought to be locked up. Brendan Shanahan has gone soft on crime. The Montreal Canadiens are all divers. National Hockey League referees are rabbit-eared politicians.

It is Monday as we write this, and there is so much umbrage in the air, it makes us want to go back to bed and pull the covers over our heads. Except that, you know, it's almost all justified.

Almost ...

Reading from left to right:

*** Kaleta, the 26-year-old Buffalo Sabres winger, is building the kind of resume that would bring a flush of pride to the cheeks of Matt Cooke and Raffi Torres, whose co-authored Villainy 101 course Kaleta took by correspondence and evidently passed with flying colours.

He hasn't taken the 200-level followup course yet -- Image Management: how to morph from notorious headhunter to one who has seen the light, found God, repented, and in all other ways became a model citizen -- but perhaps it got stuck in the mail.

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