Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun has numerous Leafs notes and this...

The NHL season began on Wednesday night with a Calgary-Edmonton matchup with none of the grit or spark of what once was. What we witnessed was a coronation of sorts — this is who Connor McDavid is, what he is going to be, and the theme being just try to stop him.

The Flames probably can’t. What made the hockey so great back in the day wasn’t just what Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier and Glenn Anderson and Paul Coffey did on any one night, it was what Lanny McDonald or Al MacInnis or Joey Mullen managed in return. It was Hall of Famers vs. Hall of Famers.

The Flames will have to go back in their history now and find a way to stop McDavid, the way they found a way to compete with Gretzky.

Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Sun with talk around the league.

Below, the NHL Best of the Night video, which runs 5 1/2 minutes.