Something for you to read between updates on off-track betting in the Himalayas...
- On Brock Nelson, half-seasons, slumps, and such. [TSS]
- The World Cup is a month away. Here is the schedule for ESPN's pre-tournament games. [Yahoo]
- Duane Sutter is part of an Oilers front office reshuffling that makes Keith Gretzky assistant GM and sends Scott Howson and analytics darling Tyler Dellow packing. [Oilers | C&B | Puck Daddy]
- Gabriel Landeskog discusses his concussion, how culture is changing, and how there is much work to be done from the NHL to youth hockey. [Players' Trib]
- The case for signing Jiri Hudler. [TSN]
- Puck Daddy's "weird" summer series takes on the Coyotes, whose history is almost checkered enough to make you say, "You know, that John Spano was okay." [Puck Daddy]
- Speaking of bizarre, the Islanders' summer scores high on the league-wide summer bizarro-meter. [Down Goes Brown at Sportsnet]
- Getting uglier in Buffalo with Evander Kane's accuser suing him and him set to countersue. [Buffalo News]