Aaron Ward

These may be the dog days of summer, but your missives keep pouring in. Let's dig through the mailbag for your thoughts on Eddie Shore winners, the league's leading prima donna and prairie dogs.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- This ought to make the Carolina Hurricanes' training camp worth watching: Aaron Ward skating with the player who decked him during the playoffs.

Maybe you just have to take Islanders GM Garth Snow at face value when he explains why he decided to add Martin Biron to his suddenly crowded stable of netminders on Wednesday.

The Penguins won't accept a one-year lease extension to stay in Pittsburgh, keeping the pressure on state and local leaders to cut a deal for a new arena or face the prospect of losing the franchise to another city....

What was your welcome-to-the-NHL moment?