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Tuesday Morning Hockey Thoughts

05/16/2017 at 10:15am EDT

from Elliotte Friedman of Spotsnet,

- An unusual name started circulating in trade circles the last few days: Minnesota’s Nino Niederreiter. The 24-year-old winger had a career-high 25 goals in 2016–17, and, after making a few calls, it sounds like teams are looking at the Wild’s expansion/cap situation, wondering if he could be available. Two years away from unrestricted free agency, Niederreiter is arbitration eligible and will get a nice raise from the $2.7 million he just earned.

The Wild also need to re-sign Mikael Granlund. As an exec from another team put it, “It may not be their first choice, but if you make it worth their while, it’s possible.” All GM Chuck Fletcher would say is, “We are actively listening... on everything.”

- One of the reasons some people still hold out hope for Olympic participation is that no All-Star Game has been set for next season. However, it does sound like there are plans for one. At this past season's All-Star Weekend, it was believed the next one would be held in a Western Conference city, but there are rumblings the league went southeast instead. It will be announced with the full schedule.

- I’d forgotten (until last weekend) how much doctors and chiropractors hate each other. Years ago, I did a feature on Ted Carrick, a chiropractic neurologist who helped Sidney Crosby recover from his concussions in 2011. Some medical doctors reached out, annoyed we’d given it such a platform. My response was, “Crosby believes it helps, it’s a story whether you like it or not.”

Well, Ottawa’s Clarke MacArthur credits “upper cervical chiropractics” with straightening his mind and head after his own concussion battles. He said his C3 vertebra was out of line. He got it adjusted and minutes later “could feel the blood flowing through the left side of my head.... It was like the train was off the track a little bit.”

That also didn’t go over well with the medical community. MacArthur said he got the idea from former teammate Drew Stafford. It’s becoming more common in hockey and it’s probably not going away.

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