Puck Headlines: Bettman on booing; Bruins on ‘Today’; new coaches

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.

• We don't want to say the Bruins are excited about winning the Stanley Cup, but … [NHL, and buy the photo here]

• To the victors go the sponsorships. And the Boston Bruins are going to make BANK after winning the Stanley Cup. [Boston Globe]

• The Detroit Red Wings will find out next week whether Nicklas Lidstrom will return for another season. How are we feeling about those chances? [ESPN]

• Winnipeg owner Mark Chipman: "We literally came within 10 minutes of acquiring (the Coyotes) in May 2010 when the City of Glendale met a 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time deadline to wire the funds necessary to pay for the league's losses for the (2010-11) season." [Winnipeg Free Press]

• Gary Bettman on his being booed during the Stanley Cup presentation: "To answer that question would require me to engage in some degree of whining, which I will not do. The fact of the matter is people sometimes have perceptions to why things do and don't happen." [Sports Radio Interviews]

• Jason Botchford with a firecracker of a column on Roberto Luongo: "Why this is all so important now is because the Canucks have a potential answer. Cory Schneider has the mind and the agility to be great in the NHL. Maybe it's naive to believe he can handle Vancouver any better than Luongo. Maybe it's naive to believe he can become a starter and dominate. Then again, maybe he could be the Canucks Aaron Rodgers if Luongo moves on. [The Province]

• Dan Tencer offered an audio eulogy of the Vancouver Canucks that's all sorts of bitchy. [CHED]

• Hipster Runoff wonders why bros riot. [Hipster Runoff]

• Adam Gopnik of the New Yorker calls the Boston Bruins a weak champion, thinks a culture of violence has cost us Sidney Crosby and hopes for a non-violent European brand of NHL hockey one day. You're going to love it! (Although his material on Gary Bettman and Colin Campbell is solid.) [New Yorker]

• The Calgary Flames have hired Clint Malarchuk as a goaltending coach. A smart decision, any way you slice it. [CP]

• The sad, sad reality of Chris Drury and the New York Rangers. [Scotty Hockey]

• Buy out Brad Boyes? Balderdash! [Dave Davis]

• Tomas Vokoun and the Colorado Avalanche? George Richards investigates. [On Frozen Pond]

The Tampa Bay Lightning take batting practice with the Tampa Bay Rays. Steven Stamkos played shortstop growing up and hit a few balls to the warning track. But he's no Mike "Slugger" Smith … [Lightning Strikes]

• Multi-platinum country music star Dierks Bentley and hip hop / electro pop group Far East Movement will be among the performers at the 2011 NHL Awards, the National Hockey League announced today. Both will perform Chaka Khan medleys (unconfirmed). [NHL]

• The Dallas Stars introduce Glen Gulutzan as their new head coach. Writes Mike Heika: "NHL coaches like starting with someone new. That said, they don't want too new. They want a head coach who knows how to run a bench and run a team. There is a certain feeling that you can't just walk in and become a head coach at the NHL level, and that's why Kirk Muller might not get a head coaching job until he takes a job as an AHL head coach. It's probably why Willie Desjardins didn't get an interview." [Dallas Stars Blog]

• Interesting terms on the contract: "The lenders, or Tavares, or Nieuwendyk, or whoever ultimately pulls these kinds of strings would agree only to a two year deal with a third year as a team option. Contrast that with most head coaches who get a three year agreement, a la Marc Crawford, even if the third year will be paid while he presumably does television." [Defending Big D]

• Mike Yeo was official introduced by the Minnesota Wild today as well. Here's the full transcript. [Russo's Rants]

• Matt Sekeres on the riots: "The hockey world sees the ugly underbelly of the Canucks fan base, the perception now well beyond whining and conspiracy theories. So like it or not, Vancouver and the Canucks have an image problem, and when their 41st NHL season begins next fall, the theme is redemption -- and not just on the ice. The team will have to root out its bad apples, aided by city hall, the police, and the responsible Canucks fans who deplore these lunatics in like colours." [Globe & Mail]

• USA Hockey is booming this year. [US of Hockey]

• Again, if you're coming to our NHL Awards party, please to be RSVP'ing here.

• Finally, here's the Stanley Cup and the Boston Bruins on "The Today Show." Lester Holt, not the biggest puckhead.