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Enroth replaces Lehner at World Cup; Savard on health, hockey (Puck Headlines)

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• Johan Franzen figured out what happened to Dwight Schrute’s cousin Mose after the The Office went off the air. Turns out he’s actually Dylan Larkin. [@jfranzen93]

• Jhonas Enroth will replace Robin Lehner on Team Sweden for the World Cup of Hockey. [NHL]

• Buffalo Sabres GM Tim Murray explains why the team felt it was better for Lehner to skip the World Cup and continue to rehab his nagging ankle injury. [@BuffaloSabres]

• Marc Savard spoke at length about life after hockey, a career with the Bruins, health, and family, and how complicated the intertwining of all of them are now. [Stanley Cup of Chowder]

• Getting to know the new coach of the Colorado Avalanche, Jared Bednar, from the players who’ve played for him before. [Denver Post]

• New York Rangers sign free agent forward Brandon Pirri to a one year deal worth $1.1-million. [Blue Seat Blogs]

• Taylor Hall speaks honestly about the trade that sent him to the New Jersey Devils. He took it personally and likened it to a breakup. [THN]

• Scott Luce, former Director of Amateur Scouting with the Florida Panthers, has been hired to the same position with the Las Vegas franchise. [Sin Bin]

• Why the David Bolland and former first-round pick Lawson Crouse trade to the Arizona Coyotes from the Florida Panthers by ‘new school management’ with both teams is ‘bad optics’ for the NHL brass. [Ottawa Citizen]

• Tyler Ennis played in only 23 games last season after suffering two concussions. The forward admitted he was scared he wouldn’t recover and details his attempts to rebuild his career. [Edmonton Journal]

• Highlights from Roman Josi’s chat with Scott Burnside about the P.K. Subban for Shea Weber trade and getting over the Game 7 loss to San Jose. [On The Forecheck]

• Hampus Lindholm contract negotiations, Vegas franchise name, veterans available, and more storylines that need resolutions as the offseason winds down. [USA Today]

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• “All Dawn Braid wanted was an opportunity to do what she loved – teach skating – at the highest level possible. While she may not have broken through the glass ceiling, she certainly cracked the Plexiglas. Braid was hired by the Coyotes Wednesday as a skating coach and is believed to be the first full-time female coach in NHL history.” [AZ Central]

• Exploring why has it taken the men’s professional leagues so long to add female full-time coaches to their staffs? [Arctic Ice Hockey]

• Catching up with new Boston Bruin David Backes (still weird) as he heads home to Fogerty Arena in Blaine, Minnesota. [Bruins]

• Patric Hornqvist was the Mr. Irrelevant of the 2005 NHL Entry Draft. He never let that stop his drive for success. Seems to have worked out well being a Stanley Cup winner and all. [ESPN]

• Mike Heika’s theories on why Dallas Stars fans are insistent on trading Kari Lehtonen or Antti Niemi. [Dallas News]

• Why Zach Parise is Team USA’s best option at captain for the World Cup. [Gone Puck Wild]

• Debating the World Cup of Hockey jerseys from first to worst. [Lightning Shout]

• Toronto Leafs approached Los Angeles Kings prospect Nikolai Prokhorkin about coming to the NHL. Prokhorkin, playing in the KHL, has drawn interest from several teams, but they shouldn’t expect to see him in North America soon. [Leafs Nation]

• The New York Riveters struggled with depth scoring this past season. Rookie forward, Miye D’Oench, could be the fit the team needs to balance out the scoring lines. [Today’s Slapshot]

• Projecting the Top 25 defensemen for the 2016-17 season. [Yahoo! Sports]

• Fantasy hockey: Part One of a series on players expected to regress from their 2015-16 season stats. [Dobber]

• Danil Antropov, son of former NHL’er Nik, left his family in their native Kazakhstan (where his day played in the KHL) at 13-years-old to go back to Canada to purse his hockey dreams. Now 15, he’s starting to turn heads as he preps for his first season with the Oshawa Generals. [IIHF]

• Reflecting back on the historic 1972 Summit Series pitting Canada against the USSR. [The Bloggers’ Tribune]

• Finally, the official trailer for the documentary ‘Ice Guardians’ about enforcers and controversial role they play in hockey right from many of the men who’ve lived the role.

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