NHL Notebook: Nothing On the Wire, But the Offseason Still Bites

There is no actual story here beyond a bare NHL wire stub, which is basically the league’s version of a dead puck against the glass. That leaves very little to tease, unless you count the usual offseason churn, where every whispered rumor gets dressed up like a franchise-altering scoop. In a business built on leverage, silence can be its own message, and that is usually when the real front-office games begin.