*Everybody enjoy that lovely bit of snow? It was beautiful. Here’s hoping it’s the start of a real, actual winter here in the Philadelphia region. Wouldn’t that be nice?! Anyhoo, while it was nice that the NHL landed on a starting date a week or so back, there is still a whole bunch of stuff up in the air. [BSH]
*We know all of this because Gary Bettman had a little talk with the press yesterday. As he is wont to do. [Sportsnet]
*Charlie takes on the idea of Ivan Provorov without Matt Niskanen, and ponders the ways in which this could turn out for all of us.