In this week's collection of thoughts Elliotte Friedman writes about the league's vote to decentralize the draft and what comes next, plus other notes around the league.
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21. Stutzle had a good tale about
Claude Giroux, a very demanding teammate. “He always says he gets bad anxiety when I turn back with the puck, to slow the game down a little bit. He kind of wants me to do it, too, but then he’s like, ‘Just give me the puck.’ He’s so crazy on the bench, it’s insane. Sometimes, if I do it and we score a goal it’s all fine. But if I do it and we don’t score, he comes to the bench, he’s like, ‘Hey, come on.’ I tell him I don’t want to just give the other team the puck, but he gets anxiety because he’s scared I’ll lose it. Then he has to backcheck.” Stutzle’s the Roastmaster General.