via Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun,

- In the hottest streak of Nazem Kadri’s NHL career, he scored 15 points in 10 games, including five multi-point games and looked like he was starting to be a great NHL player. That didn’t last long. Since then, in the past 103 games, he has scored 51 points: Which is just 41-point pace over an 82-game season. Which is really average.

- John Tortorella was happy to take the Team USA job for the World Cup because he thought it would be his entrance back to the mainstream of hockey. Little did he know he’d wind up back in the NHL quickly, as coach of the soon to be named Columbus Strait Jackets.

- Connor McDavid, still learning, still figuring it all out, has more goals than Sidney Crosby, John Tavares, Tyler Seguin and the same number as Patrick Kane, Alex Ovechkin and Vladimir Tarasenko. I know it’s early, but that has to make anybody who loves hockey smile.