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.
• Goalie Mike Smith's Wile E. Coyote-inspired mask for the Phoenix Coyotes, via David Arrigo. Hopefully this is part of some larger sponsorship deal with ACME that ends up with Shane Doan wearing rocket skates. Pretty bold move by Smith; things go poorly this season and videos like this are going to be posted with frequency. Meep meep!
• Buffalo Sabres GM Darcy Regier's son is an expert golfer. Look, the punchline about the Sabres is so easy that you just made it in your head, so let's all just move on. [Windsor Star]
• Interesting post about Alex Ovechkin's history of sticks, and what he might be using next season. [Hockey Hourly]
• Mike Knuble of the Washington Capitals seems rather insulted that anyone would believe a 39-year-old player would be nearing retirement: "I'm out there playing for another deal. … I'm not riding off into the sunset. I want to make that point clear to everybody. This is no farewell song." [Capitals Insider]
• After Max Domi's controversial move to the OHL, examining the league's draft rules. [Buzzing The Net]
• Don Cherry already has his jacket picked out for the first Winnipeg Jets game. Will it be Maverick's from "Top Gun"? [Sun]
• The Los Angeles Kings officially change their team colors to white, silver and black. [Monarchs]
• "Chris Botta of Point Blank, a blog on the Islanders, suggests that Islanders GM Garth Snow is interested in adding veteran depth on defence. Keep in mind that money is a factor, here — the Islanders are currently $2.3 million below the salary cap floor. Hello, Filip Kuba?" [Sens Extra]
• Looking at the NHL milestones that can be reached this season by individual players. Can Jaromir Jagr become just the 12th player in NHL history to notch 1,000 assists? He's 47 away. [NHL.com]
• Speaking of Jagr, good translation of an interview he did in the Czech Republic, including that now-legendary statement that Jagr would be willing to return to play for Mario Lemieux's Penguins for the minimum salary. Said Jagr: "Sure. What can I say? I think it's a bit silly to make a connection between that statement and the current situation. It's a bit out of context. It's like before the wedding you'd tell your bride that you'll never leave her. And then a month later something happens and you get a divorce." [Broad Street Hockey]
• Ryan Nugent-Hopkins: No. 93 in your programs, No. 1 on your draft board two months ago. [CP]
• Full coverage of Brad Marchand's day with the Cup through these links. [SCOC]
• Hurricane Irene didn't wallop many communities up and down the East Coast, but it certainly affected a few. One puckhead in particular had her house flooded out and there's a virtual Tweetup to raise some money to help her. [NHL Tweetup]
• As a public service, The 6th Sens have created a printable Paul MacLean mustache that fans can wear to Ottawa Senators games.
• Travis Hughes on the JVR contract extension: "That's more than Giroux makes, and that doesn't make any sense to me. It's not horrible if he can keep progressing, but well.. the focus is certainly going to be on him now, isn't it?" [Broad Street Hockey]
• Really nice write-up on the Burns/Vlasic defensive pairing that's going to be an essential part of the San Jose Sharks' Cup chances next season. Rare is the Ansel Adams reference in a hockey blog. [Fear The Fin]
• Down Goes Brown with offseason winners and losers. On the Montreal Canadiens: "Signed Erik Cole as a free agent, making them the only team on Hockey Night in Canada to be ensured of having a player whose last name Bob Cole will pronounce correctly." [DGB]
• P.K. Subban's greatest hits. We'll wait for the boxed set. [Eyes on the Prize]
• Why people love to hate the Vancouver Canucks. Wait, diving? You don't say. [The Hockey Writers]
• Please support Yahoo! Sports blogs in the first annual Blogs With Balls awards.
• SATIRE: Via Wayne in Tuskegee, Don Waddell takes over as Apple CEO. [Skid Bream]
• Finally, via Deadspin, Biz Nasty Videobombs Colby Armstrong during Toronto Blue Jays batting practice. Good, but he needs to hone his Keslurking skills.