Somewhat unsurprisingly, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review columnist Joe Starkey says Penguins coach Michel Therrien should win the Jack Adams Award as the NHL's coach of the year. I'm not sure I'm ready to give the award to Therrien, but one nice point Starkey makes is that Therrien has done a great job managing Jordan Staal's ice time. As Starkey points out, it's tempting as anything to give talented rookies as much time as they can handle. Therrien has shown a lot of restraint — something that's a little easier to do when you have Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin in your lineup.

Nice! HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA is staying with the CBC. Interestingly, the new deal caps the number of Leafs game, and rotates in other Canadian teams. I'm guessing this deal started before the Oilers went into a tailspin.
More nice! The NHL is asking GMs to get more specific announcing injuries, rather than just specifying upper body/lower body. The big loophole is GMs don't have to get specific if they think the player will be in danger upon their return to the ice, meaning nothing will really change. The whole practice of not specifying is pretty pointless, though. You see someone get their knee walloped and after the game, the coach says it's a lower body injury. Anyone who can maintain a thought for 60 minutes is going to make the connection between the two events.
Also, Greg Logan loves Ryan Smyth as an Islander. I liked Ryan Smyth's first tour of duty as an Islander, when he was Michael Peca. I don't know if Smyth wants to stay on the Island, but he's pretty tight with Mike Sillinger and watching him on the bench a few times, he always seems to be laughing, which has to be a good sign for the Isles.

Wow. The Red Wings have a lot of contracts expiring this summer: Mathieu Schneider, Pavel Datsyuk, Todd Bertuzzi, Kyle Calder, Danny Markov, Kirk Maltby, Chris Chelios and Dominik Hasek.
I didn't know about Bertuzzi. I wonder if Detroit will keep him around, though. I thought he looked great in his return last week — a lot faster than I remembered him, too.
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