9 – Number of days remaining until the reigning Stanley Cup champs kick off their 2018-19 season. But it’s also…
…the number of players on last year’s roster who racked up at least 20 assists over the course of the season, with three of those players – Evgeny Kuznetsov (56), John Carlson (53), and Tom Wilson (21) – establishing new career-high marks in that department.