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I’m a man of my word.

You are free to have lots of problems with my opinions – and oh my, many of you do! – but I stick to what I say. I don’t like Michel Therrien. I didn’t like him when Marc Bergevin hired him and I’m not going to start liking him next week.

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So, a few days back, I promised on Twitter that I would do my best to deliver a positive What the Puck column this week and that’s exactly what I’m going to do.

That means I can’t start the column by complaining about the white-bread English-Canadian hockey Mafia running this silly World Cup of Hockey tournament without inviting Kris Letang, P.K. Subban or Alex Galchenyuk. I can’t complain about Max Pacioretty’s lack of leadership skills and general blandness.

No it has to be upbeat. So here we go. I’m giving it the college try. In fact, believe it or not, I have a good-news story to tell today and it’s all about a young man named Alex Galchenyuk. OK so Team North America – whatever the heck that is! – decided not to choose a 22-year-old 30-goal scorer. Who cares? It’s just the World Cup, a cash-grab from Gary (Master of the Cash Grab) Bettman.