Mirtle's tweet

I can confirm Don Fehr will take on the NHLPA job. He is in town at the world hockey summit but has not yet met with the media.

I saw this Dan Le Batard story tonight and I really thought it was an especially good read. It's not strictly about hockey, but it should interest any sports fan, especially ones with a critical eye for sports media.

Volchenkov at number 3? How does Paul Martin appeal to everyone?

As the post says, not a terrible crop of 3-6 type stay at home D men. Rosterbate away!

From his latest (uncorrected):

as for Vancouver....

we are talking Schneider and he is and extremely hot commodity. although once again is Vancouver ready to deal the player many feel could challenge and push Roberto in camp.

I am hearing the Islanders and Panthers are most interested in Schneider, and that Washington is content with staying with their two rookie goalies for this season..

James Mirtle and Eric Duhatschek with an interesting talk about what the playoffs tell us about the future of goalies in the salary capped NHL. According to them, the days of highly paid goalies playing zillions of games each season are over. Discussion begins at 10:45 and in earnest at 11:20

Puck Daddy reports the Coyotes sale to Jerry Reinsdorf is dead. Sources say a fall back plan, if there is no way to keep the team in Phoenix, is to move the Coyotes back to Winnipeg. And part of that deal supposedly would see Ice Edge Holdings buy the Moose and move them to Thunder Bay, Ontario

Some context from the linked Puck Daddy post

This is up 46% from the 2002 USA/Canada showdown, and will very likely be the highest-rated hockey game since 1980. The share means that 1 in every 3 Americans with a TV were watching the game. This is, to put it professionally, out of this world.

and

Sunday's game drew a higher overnight rating than every World Series game since 2004 (including every game of Yankees/Phillies last year), every NBA Finals telecast since 1998, and every NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four game since at least '98. Excluding the NFL, the 17.6 overnight for the game is the second-highest of the year for any sporting event, behind only the Texas/Alabama BCS National Championship Game in January (18.2).