Ovechkin/By S. Bradley

The Hockey News 2011-12 Yearbook made it to my house before Tropical Storm Irene yesterday.

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Logan Couture’s loyalty to the Sharks, along with maybe a little uncertainty over what the next collective bargaining agreement will look like, have inspired him to sign a two-year extension with San Jose.

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Cooke

It comes about 17 months too late for Bruins center Marc Savard, but Pittsburgh forward Matt Cooke says he’s going to try to change his ways this season.

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Scatchard

The news came via Twitter today.

“After a long week of tests at the Mayo Clinic Dr.’s have advised me that playing hockey is not an option for me any longer. Wouldn’t be safe,” journeyman NHL center Dave Scatchard announced on his feed.

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Chara hits Pacioretty

Montreal forward Max Pacioretty might still be perturbed by the NHL’s decision to not suspend Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara for his March 8 hit.

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Marchand's waiting on a deal/By S. Bradley

The agent for Bruins forward Brad Marchand completed a deal for one of his higher-profile clients today.

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Seguin/By S. Bradley

Here’s your nightly dose of the mini mailbag:

Mike Linskey wrote: What position do you think Tyler Seguin plays this year?

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Marchand/By S. Bradley

Finding contract comparables for players is an inexact science, but the deal Teddy Purcell agreed to with Tampa Bay earlier this week piqued my interest with regards to the Bruins negotiations with restricted free agent Brad Marchand.

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Here’s another way to celebrate the Bruins’ Stanley Cup championship and fill your stomach.

And best of all, you get to do it at the expense of Vancouver.

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Lucic pounds Grant/By S. Bradley

People were complaining all season long that Bruins forward Milan Lucic wasn’t fighting enough and he wasn’t playing physical enough.

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Bruins & Habs have to be in same division/By S. Bradley

The projected move of the Winnipeg Jets from the Southeast Division to the Western Conference after the 2011-12 season has everyone, especially during this dead part of the hockey summer, formulating their realignment plans for the NHL.

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Kaberle/By S. Bradley

The Bruins’ trade for Joe Corvo and Tomas Kaberle’s decision to leave Boston for Carolina are both now more than a week old.

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Spooner's among the top prospects/By S. Bradley

Hockey Prospectus is out with its ranking of all 30 NHL teams’ prospects.

And there’s good news for the Bruins.

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Boris Valabik, we never knew ye.

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Kaberle/By S. Bradley

Making heads or tails of what Tomas Kaberle is worth out on the open market right now requires some sort of ancient code-breaking talisman that Nicolas Cage would try to secure in one of his popcorn movies.

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