Babcock Lands Back on the Rumor Mill With West Team in Play

Mike Babcock is back in the coaching gossip lane, and that alone is enough to make a few front offices reach for the coffee. The former Red Wings coach is being linked to a Western Conference club, which means someone out there is at least kicking the tires on a name that still carries real league weight. In NHL circles, these kinds of whispers rarely appear out of nowhere, and they usually tell you something about where a team thinks its next move has to come from.