Lazy Links: Old Men in Colorado, etc

I want to put something up here, but I don't have time to make it a good one. Some news around the league:

• Sakic is manning up for his 20th season, and Forsberg is out until Christmas for "conditioning." Your move, Sundin.
• Bruins fans are classy: Fluto Shinzawa wisely uses the picture of Sydney Crosby's first fight in his article on Andrew Ference.
• AmericanHockeyFan points to a solid example of good journalism and as you can guess, he didn't point here.
• Mirtle has a lot of time on his hands
  
• Puck Daddy and Fanhouse will have anything I missed, including another "5 Ways..." article, this time from Stu Hackel:

4. More shorthanded play. The NHL isn't going to enlarge the size of the playing surface. Forget it; the owners are not taking out two rows of their most expensive non-suite seats. And let's not consider making the game a four on four contest. Besides ruining the symmetry of the spectacle, it would negate too much of the physical element from the game, and enough has vanished since the lockout. But here's a good compromise: End the substitution of players for coincidental majors and for when minors taken while a team is already shorthanded. Two guys fight? It's four on four for five minutes. A pair of fights? Three on three. Two guys get their sticks up during a power play? It's now four on three. Those were the NHL's rules for a long time and restoring them now would make sense.

My dad would love that. I guess I should write my own "5 Ways..." article. More on that later.