Fresh Links: Hey, Joe Edition

In Bruins news you can use:

• The Bruins welcome Joe Sacco, who replaces Geoff Ward and could really use a break, here. [AlongTheBoards]
• Sacco will see some old friends on ice at TDGarden, and he approached Claude Julien about the open position. [TheBostonGlobe]
• Bruce Cassidy was ultimately too valuable (and happy) in Providence to take the job and Sacco is excited to return home with his family. [ProvidenceJournal]
• It is a big week for BU products, as homeboy David Warsofsky has got himself a contract. [Marshfield.WickedLocal]
• Would this all be to package him with Matt Bartkowski in hopes of landing a much-needed right winger? [SouthCoastToday]
• Moving Loui Eriksson to the top line and juggling Chris Kelly's role on the third along with taking a look at up-and-coming Providence Bruins may be the answer for the Bruins. [NHL]
• Kevan Miller spoke about growing up playing roller hockey in Valencia, CA and then leaving home for prep school in Part #2 of Bear Tracks. [Bruins.NHL]

Elsewhere around the rink:

• Condolences to the good folks at The Royal Half, who have lost their cub reporter. [TheRoyalHalf]
• As eager as we all are to see young talent in the NHL, here's a word to wise GMs... [LastWordOnSports]
• Memories... how about a picture of young Andrew Ference competing in a track event? [Boston.com]
• One University of New Hampshire player is skating in the footsteps of her father. [TheColorOfHockey]
• Wander through the byzantine maze that is Wikipedia to search out the best quotes form NHL teams' entries. [Grantland]
• Remember Fail for Nail? St. Louis Game Time proposes that this year could be called Not Bother; Get Connor®, on the basis of this article about top prospects [TheHockeyNews] Also, they express concern for the welfare of our own Sarah Connors upon the Bruins' hiring of Joe Sacco. [StLouisGameTIme]
• It wasn't only the Maple Leafs that bulked up in the analytics department... beware the Dallas Stars! (Take note of the one Bruins roster error that statistics could have helped avoid...) [TheSportingNews]
• In fact, the number of NHL teams hiring specialists in advanced statistics have gone from four to thirteen in three years. [BlueJacketsExtra]
• The Colorado Avalanche nearly had another name. I think they dodged a bullet. [DenverPost]
• Ryan Kesler 's departure temporarily left a-hole in the Canucks ' roster, but not for long! Yeah, that kind of hole...  [HockeyNationCity]
• Gambling and hockey are no strangers to each other, Jaromir Jagr has been known lose big on football. [USATOday]
• Former PBruin Ryan Button has moved on from the Texas Stars, and has signed to play with the The Iserlohn Roosters of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. (Google translation from German) [Hockeyweb.de]