It's that time of year when a room full of overweight middle-aged men spend the day leering at buff shirtless teenagers working out. It's the NHL Combine!

This year Sportsnet will live stream the fitness drills of the presumptive top two draft selections, Auston Matthews and Patrik Laine.

2016 NHL Scouting Combine livestream schedule - PPP
Click above for the link to the stream, and schedule for Matthews and Laine's groups.

The Combine has actually been underway for a few days already, with teams doing interviews of players. Here are Laine's thoughts from yesterday.

Stanley Cup

After a long day of ogling future hockey stars, you can finally watch some current stars playing hockey. Tonight's game is in San Jose and starts at 8:00PM EDT.

A complete guide to the Penguins playoff beards - PensBurgh
Ranking each member of the Pittsburgh Penguins for how their playoff beard looks.

Other News

Toronto Maple Leafs UFA Target: Jhonas Enroth - Editor in Leaf
The Toronto Maple Leafs goaltending situation is not pretty right now – and by not pretty I mean it’s a tire fire. They need a stable backup goaltender.

Look at how out of shape Jonathan Toews is - Second City Hockey
Does he even lift?

NHL exit from Olympics predictable, but would leave a void - National Post
‘For (the NHL) it's business, then maybe sport.’ That was true in the run-up to the 2010 Olympics and it remains true to this day

After handing over documents, NHL now fights to keep them secret - TSN
The latest legal battle in the NHL concussion lawsuit involves 91 confidential documents that lawyers for the league inadvertently handed over in the case, but now want to keep secret.

Breaking Down the New Digs: Part 1, the Leaping Cat - Litter Box Cats
"Leaping Cat" gets a makeover.

The Coach of Our Dreams - St. Louis Game Time
Can Mike Yeo fit in St. Louis - and does it even matter?

Monsters win again, up 2-0 in AHL championship series - The Cannon
Lake Erie wins seventh game in a row, heads back to Cleveland with confidence and momentum

Canadiens look to Muller to spark power play, bring experience to staff - The G&M
Muller, a former Canadiens player, captain and assistant coach, was sold on signing with Montreal after a chat with head coach Michel Therrien. Muller will be in charge of working with the forwards and fixing a woeful power play that ranked 25th in the NHL this season with a 16.2 per cent success rate.

Report: Wings shopping Datsyuk's contract, interested in Stamkos - theScore
[Species: I have to wonder if the NHL and/or NHLPA's patience is wearing thin with these dead-contract shenanigans. Trading around contracts of players on permanent LTIR is one thing, but will a team really go so far as to trade for a $7.5M cap-hit contract that will have zero associated salary? I'm sure that's appealing to some teams, like Carolina, and appalling to the NHLPA.]

Carolina Is Fastest Growing Market In NHL - Canes Country
Several negative factors affected poor Hurricanes' attendance last season but being a bad market is not one of them.

Boxing legend Muhammad Ali dies at 74 - BBC News
"I would like to be remembered as a man who won the heavyweight title three times, who was humorous and who treated everyone right. As a man who never looked down on those who looked up to him...who stood up for his beliefs...who tried to unite all humankind through faith and love."

"And if all that's too much, then I guess I'd settle for being remembered only as a great boxer who became a leader and a champion of his people. And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was."

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