Alternate NHL logos; Blackhawks scold Bieber; Who’s in for HHOF 2014? (Puck Headlines)
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• Do yourself a favour and check out the rest of this gallery of crudely-sketched alternate NHL logos. [Reddit]
• Members of the Chicago Blackhawks scold Justin Bieber for stepping on the logo. Calm down, everyone. This dude has brought shame on a whole nation. Your logo is small potatoes. [DNA Info]
• Rod Brind'Amour will have to wait for his turn to join the Hockey Hall of Fame. But he's deserving. [News Observer]
• Same for Dave Andreychuk. [Buffalo News]
• I'm way more excited for next year's HHOF inductions, because Chris Osgood is eligible, and we're all going to fight about that. [Greatest Hockey Legends]
• Tyler Dellow on the unique structure of David Clarkson's contract. [MC79 Hockey]
• "Then I looked at [Calgary's] roster situation and depth chart and I had to laugh. The kind of laugh that comes out unbidden, when you see someone quite serenely and soberly walk into a calamity of their own volition, and it would appear to be the most natural thing in the world, except that it has everyone around them looking and thinking "what the-?!" [Flames Nation]
• Brace yourselves: the Buffalo Sabres will be announcing a new third jersey on Friday. Fingers crossed for the return of the Buffa-slug. [Die By the Blade]
• Goodbye, Alex Burmistrov. You will be missed-strov. [Arctic Ice Hockey]
• How to sell 40,000 tickets to ice hockey. In Australia. [BRW]
• You could build a pretty good hockey team with players teams gave up on too soon. So Sean McIndoe did! After one game, they're not gelling, though. Looks like they never will. [Grantland]
• The Carolina Hurricanes would like to add one more free agent, so keep the line free, Mason Raymond! [Canes Country]
• The Geoffrion legacy continues in Nashville. [Smashville 24/7]
• After not being offered a contract by the Islanders, prospect Brenden Kichton hopes to prove them wrong. [Buzzing the Net]
• Wait, Eugene Melnyk, do the Ottawa Senators make money or not? [6th Sens]
• Epic Fantasy Battle: Bobby Ryan vs. Corey Perry. [Dobber Hockey]
• Remember Don Baizley, the anti-Jerry Maguire. [The Globe & Mail]
• The New York Islanders may soon try Ryan Strome at the wing. [Lighthouse Hockey]
• Remember Anton Khudobin, off to Carolina, with the best photoshops from his time in Boston. [Days of Y'Orr]
• Roberto Luongo and Play Now Poker troll everyone by finally talking hockey, just not the topics anyone wants. [PITB]
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