from Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun,

- Chris Chelios is kind of correct. Babcock can be a pain to play for. Scotty Bowman was a pain to play for. So is Ken Hitchcock. Most great coaches are. How intense is Babcock on a day-to-day basis? Put it this way, at the end of the World Cup of Hockey, superb coaches like Joel Quenneville and Claude Julien told people they needed a little time to themselves, just to get away from the 24/7 intensity.

- Is this finally the year we get a Jonathan Toews-Crosby Stanley Cup final?

- A nickname some people in hockey have given Calgary owner Murray Edwards, CEO Ken King and club president Brian Burke: The Three Stooges. Just not slapstick, though, as the Flames try and find a way to get a new arena.

- How great of a season is Sergei Bobrovsky having in Columbus? His numbers are better than the two seasons Dominek Hasek won the Hart Trophy in Buffalo. Bobrovsky will obviously win the Vezina, but I doubt he wins the Hart. I think that’s Connor McDavid’s to lose now.

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