OPINION
- LYLE RICHARDSON: Trade Rumors Still Surround the Vancouver Canucks (The Hockey News)
- IAIN MacINTYRE: Canucks get out-competed in 'frustrating' loss to Ovechkin, Capitals (Sportsnet)
- ERIC FRANCIS: As Flames dominate Panthers, fans give Tkachuk mixed welcome upon return to Calgary (Sportsnet)
- ERIC ENGELS: Canadiens' power play exhaustingly bad, costly in loss to Sharks (Sportsnet)
- GEOFF BAKER: Why the Kraken appear to be a legitimate playoff team (Seattle Times)
- JEFF GORDON: Blues keep searching for defensive steadiness, offensive aggression (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
- GENTRY ESTES: Preds are back, but their arena won't be the same for a while (The Tennessean)
- PAT HICKEY: Squandered power plays doom Montreal to defeat (Montreal Gazette)
- LARRY BROOKS: Fragile Rangers lack their best hope of being saved (New York Post)
- TIM BENZ: First quarter grades and a look at calendar produce hazy forecast for Penguins (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
- KEN WARREN: Happy comeback for Chabot, Forsberg returns and Tkachuk alters his physical game (Ottawa Citizen)
- DAN SHAUGHNESSY: Bruins are responding to a new coach, have a former MVP on the third line, and their locker room leadership is second to none (Boston Globe)
- STU COWAN: Canadiens extol benefits of playing soccer, other sports (Montreal Gazette)
- CHRIS JOHNSTON: The future of the Leafs’ blue line is on display with Timothy Liljegren, Rasmus Sandin (Toronto Star)