Sartorial Splendor

Look to your veterans, Bruins, to lead the way.

• Charming Max Talbot schools Ryan Spooner in matters sartorial (regarding both casual wear and uniforms) in their Q&A with #BearTracks. (Video, 3:23) [Bruins.NHL]


• Which Bruin will be most important as the team is called upon to integrate the now mixed group of old and new guys?  [ESPN]


• IS OWEN THERE? Take THAT, Pittsburgh, you've lost to Boston again, this time as the city with the best-dressed sports teams! [TheBostonGlobe]

Elsewhere around the rink:

• Checking in with some former Bruins, including some optimism from Nathan Horton , Shawn Thornton 's plans, and some guy talks about his own departure from Boston.  [CausewayCrowd]


• Martin St. Louis reflects on his career, and credits his mom for believing he'd make the NHL.  [PlayersTribune]


• The retirement of an NBA scheduler reveals the quibbling between the Bruins and Celtics for time at the Boston Garden and why scheduling was a lifetime job.  [BleacherReport]


• BAD GOON! One former New York Ranger is making headlines for all the wrong reasons.  [PuckDaddy]


• The NHL is (selectively) diligent in protecting its brand from being associated with naughty things, forcing one company (US stock symbol "SPLIF") to change their Canadian stock symbol.  [KuklasKorner]


• Bloggers, polish your resumes! Eric Tulsky of Broad Street Hockey has just been tapped to be an analyst for the Carolina Hurricanes.  [BroadStreetHockey]


• Police Beat: Decision time approaches for the NHL as Slava Voynov has been released from the pokey [TheFourthPeriod] even as Ryan O'Reilly 's date in court has been moved to Septermber 10th [TheFourthPeriod] even as Darryl Sydor, an assistant coach with the Wild, stands accused of DUI with his young son in the vehicle. [KuklasKorner]


• Hockey beat reporter Katie Strang of ESPN will be moving exclusively into baseball coverage. [KuklasKorner]

Joe Haggerty can kiss our ass