Despite my wife and I taking some time to visit our families over the past few weeks, I’ve still found time to sneak some peeks at Twitter. And, like many of you, I’m consistently baffled to see how passionate hockey fans are still always on about one thing or another even in the dead of summer. It’s actually kinda great. I suppose I fit into that group, cause guess what: I some have opinions on basically everything I’ve been reading about.



So, to start the transition toward the 2018-19 season – it is about that time, you know – let me get those thoughts off my chest. Five thoughts!



1. WAR wars



This is something I’ve weighed in on in the past – does the concept of WAR work for hockey? (WAR is from baseball, which estimates how many wins a player contributes to his team over the course of a season versus a replacement level player.)



I know I’m late to the debate here, but I wanted to share an...