from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

- The greatest spectacle on ice this weekend might not have taken place on a football field in New Jersey but instead in Toronto on Friday where 19,285 fans packed the house to set an all-time attendance record for women’s hockey.

The path forward for women’s professional hockey has been challenging and littered with obstacles that ultimately became immovable objects. Good people have tried and failed, perhaps by undermining their own efforts in senseless turf wars.

But this inaugural season of the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) represents the template that has the greatest chance of long-term success and that is a cause for celebration....

- All has been forgiven in Pittsburgh, where hockey’s Methuselah will have his No. 68 retired on Sunday almost a quarter of a century after he left town.

Jaromir Jagr, who celebrated his 52nd birthday Thursday and is still a part-time active player for the Kladno team in Czechia that he owns — four assists and no goals in 15 games this season — has come home again after having been mercilessly booed every time he played as a visitor in Pittsburgh for the final decade of his NHL career....

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OK, which is the more famous goal?

The Wayne Gretzky shorthanded slapshot from the left circle that beat Mike Vernon in overtime to win Game 2 of the 1988 Smythe Division final or the Steve Yzerman slapshot from just across the blue line that beat Jon Casey in double overtime to win Game 7 of the 1996 Western Conference second round?