From Russia With Love

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So the inmates at the KHL Siberian asylum, Avangard Omsk, had phone privileges. One of their NHL escapees, Jaromir Jagr, got ahold of a phone and was calling for help.

I think the rule of thumb is that you humor these people until the straitjacket goes on. If they try and bring you into their delusion just play along until help arrives. But be careful if you get sucked into their dementia, it could be dangerous.

Pierre LeBrun at ESPN had this tale:
This season in Russia, expect more wacky stories like this one --

"'This is Jaromir Jagr calling. I'm calling from Omsk, Russia. I checked around with my manager and your name kept coming up,'" Fleming recalled to ESPN.com. "'Would you be interested in coming here to coach?'"

Fleming, an assistant coach with the Flames the last two seasons, wanted to make sure it wasn't a practical joke.

"I wasn't sure it was him," said Fleming. "But it was either him or somebody with a pretty good Czech accent."...

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Captain O' Captain

Lots of buzz about who will be the next Rangers captain. Puck Daddy reported "Naslund, Gomez, Drury or nobody for Rangers captain?" and dished on Naslund.

But, Scotty Hockey says just pass out the "A's" for now:

Drury and Gomez are both good hockey players and proven winners but Drury keeps to himself and Gomez smiles in postgame interviews after losses. The short term solution for this is to spread three A's around until someone steps up and brings the team with them.

Perhaps the captaincy could go to Staal, Girardi, Dawes or Callahan but not yet. The C brings with it a legacy and it should not be tarnished just because fans or pundits feel that somebody has to have it.

Mark Messier casts a long shadow.

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Fibro-my-#%@&#

I guess some people believed that first story from the Bleacher Report that Gary Bettman had Fibromyalgia, because they had to add a label to the title:

Gary Bettman Has Fibromyalgia (yes Humour)

update: The Fibromyalgia people must have complained because the Bleacher Report had to change the title again and make the Bettman illness a Confabulation Disorder.

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