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.
• Shark Clubs across British Columbia have changed their name to "Vancouver Club" in support of the Vancouver Canucks. General manager Tim Murphy claims people had been calling non-stop for them to change the name, because they need a hobby. No word if all copies of "Jaws" and its sequels will be destroyed in a giant bonfire, including any copies of "Jaws: The Revenge" that haven't already been destroyed. [Metro, Faceoff]
• Vancouver Canucks lineup changes for Game 2: "Vancouver is going to replace winger Tanner Glass with Jeff Tambellini on the fourth line, with big and quick Victor Oreskovich on the opposite flank. Glass has been an every-game regular for the Canucks, with a few exceptions, but the Game 2 lineup might include the eight fastest wingers available to head coach Alain Vigneault." [Globe & Mail]
• How a dive into fatherhood changed life for Alex Burrows. [Province]
• Game 2, aka Tyler Seguin Appreciation Night, earned a 14.59 household rating in Boston, the highest local rating ever for an NHL game televised on Versus. [Bruins Blog]
• The St. Pete Times encourages fans to hit back at the Boston Bruins' hilarious ad campaign mocking Tampa Bay Lightning fans. [Lightning Strikes]
• According to the Winnipeg Freep, the billionaire potential owners of a new NHL Winnipeg team are asking the Manitoba government for financial assistance in buying the Thrashers, causing guffaws from Coyotes fans that had to hear self-righteous gloating about how Winnipeg wouldn't need any. Which ignores the slight difference between "managing the debt load it carries on the MTS Centre" and "Glendale dropping its pants for the NHL." [Winnipeg Free Press]
• "Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger says taxpayers won't subsidize an NHL team in Winnipeg." [CP]
• Mirtle on the public funding sought by Winnipeg and Quebec City. [Globe & Mail]
• How potential realignment would affect the Dallas Stars. [Defending Big D]
• "In lieu of flowers, the family of Derek Boogaard requests donations be made to Defending The Blue Line. The Boogaard family would like to see Derek's legacy live on by supporting military kids and the game he loved." [Wild, Defending The Blue Line]
• Some suggestions on how to make EA Sports' NHL 12 better than its predecessor, such as improving the goalies: "They bite at the simplest move. It's a sad state of affairs when a simple forehand to backhand deke has the goalie sprawling behind him in a last ditch effort." [MMOMFG]
• Have the Philadelphia Flyers put themselves in the position to either trade Mike Richards or strip him of his captaincy? [Philly.com, Crossing Broad]
• Turns out you actually can be too drunk for Finland. [Helsingin Sanomat]
• Bob Boughner, who was a Columbus Blue Jackets coach and GM of the Windsor Spitfires, has stepped down as the former to continue in the latter. [Puck-Rakers]
• Why Pavel Datsyuk of the Detroit Red Wings is the best player in the world. [The Good Point]
• The Buffalo Sabres have signed a nonbinding letter of intent to purchase the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League in Terry Pegula's latest bid to expand his hockey empire. [AP]
• Gabe picks apart some Damien Cox ideas about Winnipeg and NHL expansion. [Behind The Net]
• In 2013, the U.S. women will beat Canada in Ottawa. [CBC Sports]
• The season review for Marian Gaborik of the New York Rangers: "Many observers believe that Gaborik and Tortorella cannot coexist, and the Rangers should trade the 29-year-old away. Those who make such an argument apparently find it easy to ignore the 42 goals that Gaborik scored for a Tortorella-coached team in 2009-10, not to mention the winger's no-trade clause and the fact that his value on the market after a disappointing season is disproportionally low." [NYDN]
• The season review for Matt Cooke of the Pittsburgh Penguins: "For a team that was limping through the better part of the season and well into the postseason, the mangled lines could've really used a little extra help from Cooke." [Pensburgh]
• NHL players fear celebrity figure skating competitions. [CP]
• Tomas Kaberle to the Detroit Red Wings, as Ryan Dixon writes? Malik mentions something called "the salary cap" that may be a factor in this transaction. [Malik Report]
• That's pretty funny right there, from the Philadelphia Flyers loyalists from Gorilla Upskirts. Roman Cechmanek has been editing his YouTube reel for the last 24 hours. [Stick tap to Broad Street Hockey]
• Interesting comparison between Sergei Bobrovsky in Philadelphia and Corey Crawford of the Chicago Blackhawks. [Houses Of The Hockey]
• From Barstool Sports and Rear Admiral on Game 2 of Bruins/Lightning. [Barstool]
• The long-shot options to keep the Atlanta Thrashers from moving to Winnipeg. [AOL Sporting News]
• Among those long-shots: The mysterious Balkan, who is no longer so mysterious. [Bird Watchers Anonymous]
• The end of Zack Stortini with the Edmonton Oilers? "The Oilers elect not to give Stortini a qualifying offer, and he ends up signing a two-way deal with another NHL team that leaves him playing in the minors for all of 2011-12." [Copper & Blue]
• According to SportsPro, Alex Ovechkin is the 23rd most marketable athlete in the world, right behind Maria Sharapova. And who wouldn't want to be beh … eh, too easy. [Alex Ovetjkin]
• Finally, an inspiring spoken word performance about the San Jose Sharks. If anyone know Morgan Freeman, please make him aware that his vocal stylings are needed to cover this.