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Goldwater backs off Coyotes; 21 players elect arbitration; gold Sabres jerseys? (Puck Headlines)

Sean Leahy
·Contributing writer

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.

• Via the IIHF's Szymon Szemberg, Swiss side HC Davos is letting children design their jerseys for exhibition games next season. These are the two winners, and they're better than a lot of what we see in the NHL. [Davos]

• "Based on the information available to us at this time, we do not believe that the Glendale arena management deal would be held unconstitutional." [Goldwater Institute]

• The NHLPA released the list of the 21 players who have elected salary arbitration. Among the bigger names include Sam Gagner, Chris Stewart and Zach Bogosian. Hearings will take place between July 22 and August 6 if those players don't reach a contract agreement with their teams. [NHLPA]

• In shocking news, Tony Gallagher is not a fan of the 2014 Heritage Classic in Vancouver: "What’s astounding about this game is that the league and the team have arranged for earlier leaks of the possibility of such a game, and the condemnation of the money grab has been long, loud and extremely widespread. But damn the torpedoes, they’re going ahead with it anyway and if nothing else, you have to admire the jam. Their thought process has to be that they don’t need the local television, radio or print media as long as their paid television broadcasters say nice things about the upcoming game. That should be enough." [Province]

• Five reasons why the David Perron for Magnus Paajarvi move makes sense. [St. Louis Dispatch]

• Lauri Korpikoski has re-upped with the Phoenix Coyotes on a four-year deal. [Coyotes]

• Tuukka Rask's big fat extension brings up a question for the Boston Bruins: what to do with 2012 top pick Malcolm Subban? [Days of Y'Orr]

• Those new Buffalo Sabres jerseys that are to be revealed in the near future? Sounds like they're going to be goooooooooooooooooold. [Icethetics]

• The AHL announced its new alignment on Thursday. [AHL]

• Next season, the Colorado Avalanche will have a brand spanking new giant scoreboard inside Pepsi Center: "The scoreboard will contain four large screens—two will face the center seating areas, measuring approximately 27’ high by 48’ long, and two will face each end of the seating bowl, measuring approximately 21’ high by 25’ wide. The new display boards will contain over 8.5 million pixels in total. Fans seated along the center areas will face a 1080p full HD screen that spans both blue lines for hockey and stretches from 3-point line to 3-point line for basketball." [Avalanche]

• How Phoenix Coyotes top pick Max Domi deals with being a hockey player and a Type I diabetic. [Arizona Republic]

• Washington Capitals general manager George McPhee went on radio Wednesday and among the topics discussed was prospect Evgeny Kuznetsov's KHL contract: "He’s 20-years-old, they gave him ten million dollars to play for two more seasons. It’s a 13% tax rate over there and even with that, most of the money is under the table. It’s probably no tax." [RMNB]

• Speaking of the Caps, they re-signed defenseman Karl Alzner to a 4-year, $11.2 million extension on Wednesday. [Japers' Rink]

• Montreal Canadiens top pick Michael McCarron has signed with the team and will report to the London Knights of the OHL after originally committing to play at Western Michigan. [Buzzing the Net]

• Looking back at those horrible months involving the NHL lockout. [The Hockey Writers]

• Finally, in honor of his making the Hockey Hall of Fame, here's a classic Brendan Shanahan from ESPN2, including "no sax before a game":