Thursday’s Dump & Chase: Killing Time

Mailbag: Early favorite in Eastern Conference, DeBrincat trade options

Here is the July 6 edition of the mailbag, where we answer your questions asked on Twitter using #OvertheBoards. Tweet your questions to @drosennhl.

NHL.com

I simply don’t think we should have to look at Erik Karlsson as a Penguin.

Tarasenko changes agents during free agency

Free agent Vladimir Tarasenko has changed agents as he seeks a new contract.

Greg WyshynskiESPN

Whatever Tarasenko is doing is…interesting. There have been rumors that some of the offers he hasn’t taken were very nice ones, in both dollars and years, though who knows whether those rumors are accurate.

Shattenkirk thrilled to join contender with Bruins

When Kevin Shattenkirk was entering his draft year, he believed that the Boston Bruins might take him. They had the No. 8 pick in the 2007 NHL Draft, and Shattenkirk, who was bound for Boston University that fall, wondered if it might make sense.

NHL.com

Anaheim to Boston is a long way every way except alphabetically.

Grant-Mentis opens up about PHF’s demise, tough road to new era for women’s hockey

Sonny SachdevaConnected

“I really do think people are kind of missing the whole story. Yes, this will put the best players in women’s hockey in one league, and definitely promote it, definitely get better over the years. But it kind of did ruin a lot of people’s lives in a very quick, 10-minute Zoom call,” she says.

Favourite picks from each round of the 2023 NHL Draft

Yes, Connor Bedard was the best pick in the draft at first overall, but scout Jason Bukala and prospect expert Sam Cosentino share their favourite, or most interesting, players selected in each round.

| July 5, 2023, 12:18 PMSportsnet

Some love for the Preds’ Tanner Molendyk here.

Diversity group: NHL ‘late to party’ on inclusion

Members of the Hockey Diversity Alliance say they feel betrayed and confused by the NHL’s decision to launch an inclusion committee, saying the league is essentially duplicating its efforts.

ESPN staffESPN

I would like it if the NHL does better than the members of the Hockey Diversity Alliance fear it will. That would be very nice.

Hornqvist, 2-time Stanley Cup champion, retires from NHL: report

Patric Hornqvist, a two-time Stanley Cup champion who played 15 seasons in the NHL, announced his retirement Wednesday.

NHL.com

Good luck, Patric Hörnqvist.

And a quick note–we’ve started getting spam comments, after a surprisingly peaceful interlude. Flagging those when you see them helps me find and remove them and the spammers faster; you can also block the user if you’d like, though that will only hide their comments from you. I’m looking into trying to implement better filters for now, and we have an improvement to the comments system (including Z key functionality!) coming later this summer.