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PHT Morning Skate: Odes to CapGeek’s founder, Price’s selfie pal gives him a letter

Carey Price,

Carey Price,

AP

PHT’s Morning Skate takes a look around the world of hockey to see what’s happening and what we’ll be talking about around the NHL world and beyond.

The Philadelphia Flyers held a closed-door meeting following their latest lose. Hopefully no one brought up an NHL standings page. (CSNPhilly.com)

Good stuff about how Carey Price’s selfie pal became his pen pal. (Global News.ca)

Why “only x points back” type observations can often be misleading during playoff races:

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To little surprise, many members of the hockey community shared their thoughts on Matthew Wuest, CapGeek’s creator who passed away on Thursday.

The Globe & Mail’s James Mirtle had probably the lengthiest account, and it’s worth a read on his old blog (which still provides rushes of nostalgia for those of us who followed the Mirtle blog many moons ago). I provided my condolences at Rotoworld, which admittedly only compliments some of the observations from around the hockey web: