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Fisherwood pregnant; drafting goalies; Sigalet talks MS battle (Puck Headlines)

Sean Leahy
Contributing writer

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.

• Hockey is coming.

• Mike Fisher may miss most of this season with the Nashville Predators but he’s already slipped one past the goalie. [Yahoo Celebrity]

• Would giving a training camp invite to Dustin Penner be a good idea for the Montreal Canadiens? [A Winning Habit]

• Carol Vadnais, who spent 17 years in the NHL with six teams, passed away at age 68 over the weekend after a battle with cancer. [Gazette]

• With all the recent talk about expansion, let’s not forget that inaugural season’s are really, really difficult. [Japers’ Rink]

• After a dynamite college career what can we reasonably expect from Johnny Gaudreau with the Calgary Flames this season? [Flames Nation]

• Really good read on new Flames goalie coach Jordan Sigalet and his fight with multiple sclerosis. [The Blade]

• It’s OK to draft a goaltender, even if they are hard to project. [Raw Charge]

• The New York Rangers will have some work to do in order to replicate last season’s success. [Bergen Record]

• The Los Angeles Kings have celebrated with Stanley this summer. Some, like Martin Jones, included owls in the partying. [Jewels From the Crown]

• After making a splash up front over the summer, the New York Islanders still have to see improvement on the blueline. [Islanders Point Blank]

• Which WHL players could make the NHL leap this season? [Buzzing the Net]

• From the Silver Monster of Chinese Taipei to Agaves Guadalajara of Mexico, here are the 55 IIHF member country champions of the past year. [IIHF]

• In a fantasy hockey auction league? Here are 10 bargains to keep an eye on. [Dobber Hockey]

• The Minnesota Wild have some questions in net. Here’s another one: should they re-sign Ilya Bryzgalov? [Hockey Wilderness]

• Finally, here's former NHL ref Bill McCreary and his glorious mustache taking part in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge: