Here are all the links from around the hockey world, and what I’m reading while easily seeing that Shawn Thornton looks nothing like John Cena. That was a funny story recounted by Thornton on Toucher and Rich this morning.
-- Patrick Kane’s lawyer has taken to arguing with people on Facebook, and that’s usually not a good thing.
-- New Bruins winger Matt Beleskey visited with the bostonbruins.com folks this weekend, and said he “wants to get started” and “could end the summer right now” because he’s so excited for his first Bruins training camp.
-- Adidas wins the NHL jersey deal, and that could have some longstanding impacts for both the company and for the teams in the league.
-- PHT writer and FOH (Friend of Haggs) Jason Brough says Kings general manager Dean Lombardi is under pressure, and there’s no doubt he is after L.A. failed to make the playoffs last spring.
-- Pascal Dupuis tells Josh Yohe that he’s hungry for more hockey with the Pittsburgh Penguins, and it sounds like he’s in very good shape while looking to come back from blood clot issues that wiped out last season.
-- The Sedin Twins played a round of H-O-R-S-E to show off the basketball skills that they absolutely don’t possess.
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-- The Marek-vs.-Wyshynski podcast is back, and they have Teddy Purcell and Matt Nichol as guests with a few more weeks of summer break for the NHL.
-- For something completely different: Aa truly sad story where a man that dressed up like Batman to visit sick children in the hospital was hit and killed by a car when his Batmobile broke down on the fast lane of the highway.