Here are your Puck Headlines: a glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media.
• Question No. 1: Why is Shea Weber wearing a Steven Stamkos T-shirt? Because it's Brad Richards. Next. Question No. 2: Is anyone mildly surprised that the whiteboard for the All-Star Game isn't just "LOLs" and drawings of genitalia?
• "Four men were arrested Sunday on counterfeit trademark charges after authorities said they intended to sell fake NHL All-Star T-shirts to fans in town for the game." Sounds like if you wanted a Team Stall or Team Lindstrom shirt, you're plum out of luck. [News & Observer]
• Boston Bruins center Patrice Bergeron, Phoenix Coyotes defenseman Keith Yandle and Nashville Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne have been named the NHL 'Three Stars' for the month of January. [NHL]
• Powerful, tragic story about former San Jose Sharks player/prospect Tom Cavanagh, as he's laid to rest at 28: "Even though he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and suffered a series of psychotic episodes that required him to be institutionalized four times in his final months, Cavanagh still was playing pro hockey last fall." [Mercury News]
• From the NHL: "The National Hockey League and the National Hockey League Players' Association announced today that forward Jordin Tootoo of the Nashville Predators has entered the follow-up care phase of the Substance Abuse and Behavioral Health Program of the NHLPA and the NHL. Tootoo is cleared to return to practice with the Predators while he continues his outpatient care. Tootoo is not cleared to play in NHL games or to travel with the Nashville Predators on their road trips." [AP]
• Adrian Dater on the pros and cons of Peter Forsberg coming back with the Colorado Avalanche: "From what I've seen at his practices, he still has the hands. And he hasn't looked molasses-slow at all. Put him on the Avs' power play, and guaranteed he could still put up points." [Denver Post]
• The NHLPA/CBC Sports players' poll called the Washington Capitals the most overrated team in the NHL. If you'd like to know why, perhaps you'd be interested in how Alex Ovechkin plays against playoff and non-playoff teams. [Japers' Rink]
• George Malik offers his take on the Detroit Red Wings Guardian which battles ... car thieves? [A2Y]
• The saddest, yet at the same time greatest, story of the day: "Pucky the Whale was just greeting people in the stands at a minor league hockey game when a drunken fan came up and tackled him, then punched him on Saturday, police said. Saturday's Connecticut Family Whale evening game went from a G-rated event to something violent near section 105, all over a bet Kevin O'Connell, 28, of East Hartford, made with a friend, police said. As the hockey team's mascot was greeting fans, O'Connell, attacked, police said." [NBC Connecticut and Courant]
• George Richards of the Miami Herald on the Florida Panthers being named as having the "worst ice" in the NHL. [On Frozen Pond]
• Weirdness from the Asian Winter Games; pulling a goalie in an 13-2 game? [Puck Worlds]
• Cody Hodgson has been recalled by the Vancouver Canucks; is he the solution to their fourth-line center issues? [Globe & Mail]
• Why Gary Bettman should admit defeat and move out of the Southern markets: "The reason hockey will never gain popularity in cities such as Atlanta, Miami or Phoenix, however, has more to do with climate than people will admit." [The Argus]
• On hockey and race, including some words about Michelle Obama's interest in hockey. [McClatchy]
• Via Videogum comes this incredible moment of Zen from the NHL All-Star Game, as Glen Wesley cranks the siren and a man drinking a beer gets quite happy about it. The old man at the end is ... wow. [Videogum, via Trey K.]
• Rhett Warrener on Darryl Sutter's time as Calgary Flames GM: "I think a lot of people took their cue from Darryl. ‘If he acts that way after a win, I better act that way after a win'" ... Instead of just being yourself and enjoying it - who cared if Darryl enjoyed it? You can still enjoy it." [Sun Media]
• Very good Q&A with Donald Fehr by Jeff Klein of the NY Times. [NYT]
• Ray Emery is ready for his AHL comeback to start. [CP]
• Statistically, the All-Star Game is sort of ridiculous. [Behind the Net]
• Another one bites the dust behind the scenes for the Washington Capitals. Fare three well, former NHL goaltender Brett "Stretch" Leonhardt. [Capitals Outsider]
• Finally, Boozeworthy offers another unbelievably cool Boston Bruins montage. Get your nerd on with the "TRON: Legacy" soundtrack:
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