from Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun,

- Keep hearing that Kirk Muller will take on an assistant’s role with the St. Louis Blues and that Kevin Dineen is likely to be the next coach of the Carolina Hurricanes.

- If Adam Oates can’t find an NHL head coaching job, wouldn’t be surprised to see him end up on the Leafs coaching staff. Oates played with Brendan Shanahan in St. Louis.

- A quick Rick Nash update: He leads the Stanley Cup playoffs with 49 shots on goal and is last in the playoffs with no goals scored. In 24 career playoff games for the Rangers, he has 91 shots, one goal. And last I checked, he was third in the playoffs in Corsi. The Corsi leader was Nick Leddy in Chicago, who was made a healthy scratch the other day by coach Joel Quenneville.

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