What is the story about?
What
have we for mid-August topics?
- These guys are basically walking punchable faces, but they get some good interview subjects — in this case, because Cal Clutterbuck has known Paul Bissonwhatever since he was 14. It’s from before the Dobson trade, but Clutterbuck covers a range of topics from being crushed about being traded to the Isles before loving Long Island, his buddy Tavares leaving (and Cal cracking up about the Coliseum chants in Tavares’ first game back), Lou joining, Brock Nelson’s quiet chippiness, Greg Cronin’s self-defeating fire, Capuano putting the Identity Line together, Dobson’s strengths and one weakness, and more. [YouTube]
- A less-noted but still crucially important side effect of the Noah Dobson trade: It keeps the Travis Hamonic (or if you prefer, Oleg Kvasha or Pat LaFontaine or…) trade tree going. [via The LHH Feed]
- Pierre Turgeon and Stephan Matteau representing Canada in the 1982 Little League World Series. [Athletic]
- Hudson Fasching gets another (two-way) NHL deal, with the Blue Jackets. [TSN]
Elsewhere
- The U.S. has invited 44 players to pre-Olympic camp. [NHL]
- After a year off and a domestic violence incident that stopped his fading career, Milan Lucic gets a PTO from the Blues for some reason. [TSN]
- The Hoffmann family, an odd group that at one point bought up a small Missouri town to turn it into “the next Napa Valley” before abandoning it, is vying to buy the Penguins. Please do! [Sportsnet]
- Possible trade destinations for Ducks RFA Mason McTavish. [Sportsnet]
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