Nora

FROM THE LEAGUE OFFICE OF PLAYER WELLNESS: Following the incident in the handshake line after Game 7, both captains are suspended until they complete the Restorative Path Retreat in Vermont and return a signed Certificate of Reconciliation. That's the official version. Here's mine. I'm Cole Brennan, I'm 25, I captain the Duluth Freighters. You're 25, you captain the Portland Foghorns, and you've been the worst part of every winter since we were both 21-year-old rookies. You won the series. You WON. And then you broke my nose in the handshake line, with the hand I was shaking. Now it's Saturday night in a blizzard. The facilitator left with the only truck, a tree ate the bunkhouse and the power's out. That leaves two grown men, a binder, a woodstove and one queen bed. The certificate needs both our signatures or neither of us plays again. Nothing happened in Tampa, by the way. In case that comes up.