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'Bona fide' All Stars; McDavid's journey; keeping Tkachuk (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. Have a link you want to submit? Email us at puckdaddyblog@yahoo.com.

• NHL players really took advantage of a day off Monday.

• Regarding All-Star Game voting: “There will be parameters put around what it means to be an NHL player. The intent is to allow populist voting if that’s what the fans want to do, but players elected have to be bona fide NHLers.” [The Hockey News]

• Don Cherry talks retirement, the Hockey Hall of Fame and more. [Postmedia]

• Bob McKenzie looks back at Connor McDavid’s journey to the NHL. [TSN]

• McDavid, Shea Weber and Jonathan Marchessault are your NHL Three Stars of the Month for October. [NHL.com]

• The New York Islanders’ goalie situation is murky and something has to give sooner or later. [Newsday]

• Brock Nelson of the Islanders come from a rich hockey family. [SI.com]

• Five teams going through early struggles that shouldn’t worry too much. [Sportsnet]

• Jeff Skinner and Victor Rask have been stepping up big time for the Carolina Hurricanes. [Canes Country]

• While the Hurricanes get Ryan Murphy back from IR… [Hurricanes]

• …the Arizona Coyotes send Christian Dvorak to the AHL. [Coyotes]

• New Jersey Devils Yohann Auvitu took an interesting path to get to the NHL. [WSJ]

• Examining the pros and cons of keeping Matthew Tkachuk of the Calgary Flames in the NHL. [Today’s Slapshot]

• Loyalty is a good thing, but sometimes it’s the right move to cut bait and move on. [Jets Nation]

• The Corsica highlight engine is really, really cool. Check it out.[Corsica]

• An NHL Draft profile of goaltender Ian Scott from the Prince Albert Raiders. [Buzzing the Net]

• Looking at the slowest and fastest starters among Eastern Conference defensemen. [Dobber Hockey]

• Finally, here’s Jacob Markstrom having some fun with his Vancouver Canucks teammates: