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.
• Designer Tommy Hilfiger and New York Rangers center Brad Richards at the Tommy Hilfiger Launches Menswear event in Toronto. Sean Avery throws his Dolce & Gabbana sunglasses into his Egyptian silk throw pillow in a jealous rage.
• HBO has started filming for next season's run of "24/7", which will feature the New York Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers preparing for an event that, at the moment, doesn't officially exist. [Blueshirt Blog, via Mark Miotto]
• The Islanders and John Tavares will announce their new deal on Thursday. Via Darren Dreger, the specifics: "6 years. $4mil, $5 mil, $6 mil, $6 mil, $6 mil., $6 mil." [Isles]
• The Los Angeles Kings are holding a hard line on Drew Doughty's contract, in that they don't want him making more than Anze Kopitar's $6.8 million. [ESPN]
• There's a proposal by John Rosenberger, a lawyer hired by Columbus and Franklin County in 2009 to negotiated a new arena deal for the Columbus Blue Jackets, that would give the Jackets financial relief and keep them in Columbus until 2039. Or when Jeff Carter has one year left on his contract. [Dispatch
• The hockey loyalties of Justin Bieber continue to vex the entire continent. [Deadspin]
• The civil case between Steve Moore and Todd Bertuzzi is scheduled to begin on Sept. 24, 2012 if Bert's still in the NHL for 2012-13 or on Oct. 22, 2012, if he's retired. The hockey world probably isn't quite ready to comprehend the mainstream media circus that will begin when this trial does. [CBC]
• "Marcel Aubut, who sold the Quebec Nordiques 16 years ago, says he thinks NHL hockey will return to the provincial capital within two years." [QMI]
• Ted Leonsis claims the Washington Capitals' "big unknown" is chemistry. Huh, here we thought it was the conference finals. [Capitals Insider]
• Michael Cammalleri on Sidney Crosby's speaking out against headshots: "What the immediate effect is for me is that it allows other players now to come out and say 'OK, it's not uncool to say what I really believe, and that I'm not a soft player because I don't think we should have headshots. I'm not a player a general manager won't want on his team. I'm now going to voice that opinion.'" [CP]
• Proteau's Top 10 odd birthplaces for NHL players, which inexplicably leaves out Crosby's, a.k.a. a manger near Bethlehem. [THN]
• Spector on what the NHL should do with its enforcers: "It would be best for the league to become proactive in conducting an detailed investigation into the roles of their enforcers, the effects it has on them during and after their careers, and what can best be done to remove the stress from their roles while still making them worthwhile NHL players." [Spector]
• Chris Jones with a nice piece that focuses on Stu Grimson, although the subhead about "the rash of hockey-enforcer suicides" assumes that one confirmed suicide is a "rash." [Grantland]
• Does the new movie "Goon" face a problem for making light of hockey fighters and pain killer addictions? [Hockey Wilderness]
• Coach Mike Yeo on the greatest strength of the Minnesota Wild this season: "That's yet to be determined, to be honest with you." So, perhaps, luck in the lottery? [NHL.com]
• Jim Rutherford, President and General Manager of the National Hockey League's Carolina Hurricanes, today announced that the team has signed defenseman Mathieu Roy to a one-year contract. The deal will pay Roy $600,000 on the NHL level or $125,000 on the American Hockey League (AHL) level, with a guarantee of at least $150,000. [Hurricanes]
• "Max Chambers, a Calgary businessman who was once interested in purchasing the Phoenix Coyotes, has been in discussions with Blues' ownership recently, a source close to the situation told the Post-Dispatch." [P-D]
• Some more about the Dallas Stars and the bankruptcy gambit. [Examiner]
• Also, who said the Stars were moving? [Defending Big D]
• Former NHLer Steve Webb and Hall-of-Famer Pat LaFontaine will pedal from the curb of the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto and begin a 550-mile bike ride to the NHL Store in New York City on Monday, Sept. 19. [Sabres]
• Finally, via Dmitry, Kristaps Sotnieks goes knee-on-knee with Vadim Khomitskiy, earning a 3-game suspension in the KHL. Sotnieks got an invite and attended last year's Capitals' camp.