Since we're all talking about Brooks today, here's his webpage on the Wawota, SK website!

At the Laurel Gardens Ice House
March 10, 2012 1-4 (doors open at noon)
Former NHL Players participating include Peter Bondra, Alan May, Joe Reekie, Yvon Labre, Vylvain Cote, Ken Sabourin, Alan Hangsleben and more.
Watch them take on teams from the US Navel Academy Alumni, Secret Service Hockey Team and Firefighters/Police.
Fundraiser to fight the late effects of childhood cancer and to help create a world free of multiple sclerosis.

The first line:

The NHL’s annual All-Star fantasy draft is the undisputed highlight of the NHL’s All-Star weekend, in the same way that reading magazines in the waiting room is the undisputed highlight of a colonoscopy.

Pure brilliance. Go read it!

Video of a roof collapsing on an ice rink just after a youth practice with Zednik, Two times he has been very lucky now as we was unhurt in this.

Dialogue at 8:40 mark til end - not so much the video as the audio

This year, the Washington Capitals were first shut out in game #44. I went through season by-season to find how soon or late this event occurred. I don't think there's any particular meaning behind these numbers; I was just curious what they were.

Sources for these data include NHL Goal-Games stats and Hockey-Reference.com's sortable schedule stats.

In Marleau Runs These Streits, only four weeks left until the playoffs. Natty and F&B are the clear top two, but who in the pack is your darkhorse for a playoff run?

North American Skaters
European Skaters
North American Goaltenders
European Goaltenders

Thanks to Bob McKenzie for the link.

Includes the NHL statement and an update from Donald Fehr and the NHLPA