Here are all the links from around the hockey world, and what I’m reading while mulling whether I want Tomas Kaberle to stand in for me the next time I’m honored during a ceremony.
*The Toronto Maple Leafs are looking to blossom from their complicated past, and their young talent is going to get them there.
*FOH (Friend of Haggs) Bruce Garrioch says that the Winnipeg Jets aren’t budging on Jacob Trouba, among other things in his Sunday column.
*Larry Brooks wants Auston Matthews and the rest of the NHL’s young guns to be allowed to go out and have their fun on the ice.
*Pro Hockey Talk says that the kids, namely Matthews and Mitch Marner, are carrying the offense for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
*Connor McDavid empathizes with Jack Eichel after the Oilers star missed a large chunk of time last season with an injury.
*The Vancouver Canucks are amused, and mystified, by the champagne celebrations at every level of the Major League Baseball playoffs.
Boston Bruins
*For something completely different: Can’t we have any nice things? Can’t we have nice, goofy Kenneth Bone without trolling the ever-loving crap out of him?