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Kane mullet update; most Googled NHLers; Alfredsson out for Red Wings; (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.

• Here is your all-important Patrick Kane playoff mullet update. Some decent business up front. So much party in the back. [@ChrisKuc]

• Daniel Alfredsson is out for Game 3 tonight against the Boston Bruins with a sore back. Joakim Andersson draws in. [MLive]

• Doing something he's done a few time this season, Tampa Bay Lightning head coach Jon Cooper popped into Steven Stamkos' media scrum on Monday. [Sun]

• Of the top 20 Googled NHL players, how many guesses would it take you to correctly pick Mike Fisher? [On the Forecheck]

• Gary Bettman said the NHL hasn't studied having an outdoor game at AT&T Stadium in Dallas, but that he "certainly wouldn't rule it out." [ESPN Dallas]

• Why Scott Howson should be thanked for helping set up these Columbus Blue Jackets. [The Score]

• A fancy stats look at how much better these Blue Jackets have gotten. [mc79hockey]

• Sorry, fancy stats haters, they aren't going anywhere, writes Mirtle. [Globe and Mail]

• No, the New York Rangers aren't diving against the Philadelphia Flyers. [NY Post]

• A look at 10 players who could really use a change of scenery. [Dobber Hockey]

• The New York Islanders make it official and announce they will again play a preseason game against the New Jersey Devils at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. [Islanders]

• The Guelph Storm are rolling in the OHL playoffs. [Buzzing the Net]

• Here's a 2014 NHL Draft quiz to introduce you to some sleepers. [The Hockey Writer]

• Former NHLer Wes Walz is heading behind the bench of East Ridge High School in Minnesota. [Woodbury Bulletin]

• "Convicted pedophile and former Maple Leafs Garden usher Gordon Stuckless was back in a Toronto court on Tuesday, where he pleaded guilty to 100 new charges involving 18 victims." [CP via Yahoo]

• Finally, our own Harrison Mooney is at it again. His latest song is "Punch You", set to the Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris".