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A couple pieces of good news about two former players and one current player for your Monday morning:
Marc Savard is joining the Ottawa 67s front office as a scout:
Former #bostonbruins star Marc Savard is going to be a scout for the #ottawa67s this season.
— Chris Stevenson (@CJ_Stevenson) August 11, 2014
Marco Sturm invited family and friends for his Abschiedsspiel
Abschiedsspiel is german for "Testimonial Game" which is something that's pretty common in Europe, and I've only recently learned about. Basically, it's a retirement game. You play a friendly scrimmage and invite all the pals you played with. Aaron Ward and Zdeno Chara played on a defensive pairing like old times:
2009 he thought he got rid of me.His worst nightmare is back on his right side 1 last time #MarcoSturmAbschiedspiel pic.twitter.com/xHxGlLvJVn
— Aaron Ward (@aaronward_nhl) August 9, 2014
More pictures are in this gallery. You can see the rosters of "Landshut Friends" and "World Friends" (including Seidenberg, Chara, Ward, and Christian Ehrhoff on defense, Glen Metropolit playing forward, and coached by Geoff Ward) here.
Tuukka Rask stopped a cannon shot
Tuukka Rask was involved in a charity game over the weekend, as you may already know. He played defense (and let a breakaway happen leading to a goal against!) for 2 periods, but stepped into the net in the third...to stop a cannon. You can see the results above. Rask was reportedly unharmed in the ordeal, because his sticks are unbreakable.
Phew, that's a lot to get through. Hope there's something for links left for later. Sorry Giesse. Anyways, what's on tap?