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.
BREAKING: No suspension, no fine for Zdeno Chara, according to the Bruins.
• Supporters of Linz celebrate during the Erste-Bank EHL match between EC Rekord Fenster VSV and EHC LIWEST Linz at Stadthalle Villach on March 8, 2011 in Villach, Austria. We honestly don't know if we'd be more pissed off about a gigantic kite blocking our view or some dude getting his bare belly all up in our mugs. Probably the latter.
• Brad Richards is back for the Dallas Stars. You're on notice, rest of the Western Conference except for Vancouver ... [Dallas Stars Blog]
• Good Atlanta Thrashers ownership news from Craig Custance? "Since ownership went public with the reality that the Thrashers could be leaving Atlanta, three groups have emerged as potential buyers to keep the team in Georgia. Bruce Levenson, one of the Thrashers owners, told Sporting News on Tuesday that discussions with these groups are ongoing." [Sporting News]
• Montreal Canadiens coach Jacques Martin: "Max Pacioretty has a severe concussion, as well as a fracture of the fourth cervical vertebrae, but it's not displaced. Max will remain at the hospital for further observation. There will be no other prognosis for the time being, but he will obviously be out indefinitely. [Canadiens]
"According to CJAD's medical correspondant Dr. Mitch Shulman, it's possible Pacioretty may never play hockey again. But he adds the fact there was no displacement is at least some good news." [CJAD]
• Mike Cammalleri on the Zdeno Chara hit: "There are two types of hits in hockey -- the kind that are strategic and tactical, designed to get the guy off the puck and make a play, and then there's the kind when you catch another guy in a vulnerable position and try to inflict some damage. It's how a lot of people are taught to play when they're young, and it makes it a tough mandate to change that attitude." [Canadiens]
• Dan Steinberg shares the backstory on Alex Ovechkin's return to Twitter, including this from Ovie's IMG rep: "Alex is doing this on his own. You're going to see an occasional misspelling, but that's the beauty of Alex's personality: you see what you get. And I think that's what people enjoy." [DC Sports Bog]
• Nicklas Backstrom will miss his first NHL regular-season game Wednesday night against the Edmonton Oilers with a thumb injury. [Capitals Inisder]
• Disco Dan Bylsma gets a new three-year contract extension. And Michel Therrien can tell you those are iron-clad guarantees you aren't going anywhere. [Penguins, and a great Q&A with Bylsma as well]
• If the Phoenix Coyotes relocated, how should the NHL realign? [OGA]
• Not sure if we posted this, but the FBI vs. Secret Service hockey game is famous in D.C. and got some national play on CNN. [CNN]
• Awesome hockey auction. [UniWatch]
• On the emergence of Kris Letang as the Pittsburgh Penguins' latest star player. [THN]
• The Los Angeles Kings have a spiffy new power play, which means they're putting away the umbrella. [LA Kings Insider]
• Dan Boyle working his way back. [Working the Corners]
• Read of the day: Michael Farber's Sports Illustrated opus on Matt Cooke of the Pittsburgh Penguins, which will surprise you, inform you and, depending on your loyalties, royally tick you off. Great quotes from ex-players like Brad May: "If people suggest our game is violent. Matt Cooke is one of the guys inciting this violence." [SI]
• The Sydney Ice Dogs with what promises to be a pretty entertaining series of commercials. We raised a Fosters for you, mates. [Via Sasky]
• Buffalo Sabres general manager Darcy Regier announced Wednesday that forwards Mark Mancari, Luke Adam and Mark Parrish have been returned to the Portland Pirates of the American Hockey League. [Sabres]
• Drew Remenda, San Jose Sharks announcer, on hits to the head: "I DON'T CARE ! I rarely utter, write or even think those words when it comes to a hockey issue, but I officially couldn't give a rat's behind on headshots, dirty hits and concussions. Callous and unfeeling you say? How can I be so unfeeling? The simple answer is, if the players don't care, then why should I? Why should you?" [Sharks]
• Looking back at the NHL's "Iron Snipers." [Matchsticks and Gasoline]
• Steven Stamkos has one goal in 12 games. Guy Boucher has decided to turn that frown upside down: "Good for him because it'll make him a better man and better player for it. People who don't go through adversity are not very strong." [Lightning Strikes]
• Allan Maki of the Globe and Mail: "This time it has to do with punishing the guilty party even if he is a star player and a major part of Boston's playoff-bound Bruins. What Zdeno Chara did to the Montreal Canadiens' Max Pacioretty calls for a suspension, a serious one, something in the Trevor Gillies range. Call it nine games, 10 games, you get the picture." [G&M]
• The Royal Half gets to the most important part of the Zdeno Chara hit debate. [TRH]
• Finally, the Utah Grizzlies vs. Ontario Reign, and a puck that the referees seem to have missed on the ice. Man, if only this had come into play ...
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