In my role as a hockey columnist, I’m constantly looking for worthwhile topics to dig into around the NHL. I keep a notebook nearby, and jot things down as they pop into my head.



Some become articles (sometimes prospects get unlucky in pre-season), and others fall by the wayside as other more deserving topics pop up.



Just because they don’t get the full article treatment doesn’t mean they’re not worthwhile, though. So periodically throughout this season, I thought it’d be fun to dig into my notebook and clean up the bits and bites.



So without further ado, here’s a handful of those.



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Time to call icing on the penalty kill



I’m fully convinced it’s time to stop allowing short-handed teams to ice the puck.



First, a team just committed an infraction. The game has decided that what they did was illegal, so a player goes to the penalty box and that team has to play a man down.