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PHT Morning Skate: Next season schedule options; Hawerchuk’s legacy

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MONTREAL, QC - OCTOBER 20: Warmup pucks sit on the ice prior to the NHL game between the Montreal Canadiens and the Arizona Coyotes at the Bell Centre on October 20, 2016 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Montreal Canadiens defeated the Arizona Coyotes 5-2. (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)

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• “The league has no interest at all in playing through the summer, so that will mean a truncated schedule of anywhere between 50 and 70 games, depending upon the league structure. The NHLPA has indicated its desire to play the full 82-game schedule, but that would take the league into late August. That is not a possibility.” [NY Post]

• Cam Talbot is part of $17M push to save Alabama-Huntsville hockey program. [PHT]

• How much longer will Tuukka Rask have hold of the Bruins’ No. 1 job? [NBC Sports Boston]

• On Dale Hawerchuk’s legacy and how he impacted Mark Scheifele and the Jets. [NHL.com]

• When will teams with cap space target those in a cap crunch? [Featurd]

• “More than 200 current and retired National Hockey League players have taken concerns about existing or potential brain injuries into their own hands by visiting a neurosurgeon in Kingston, Ont., for MRI brain scan procedures.” [TSN]

• A new arena coming and an arrangement with the Big 10. That’s the 2020-21 season ahead for Arizona State. [College Hockey News]

• New Devils goalie Corey Crawford on playing the position as a kid: “My brother would put me on [the outdoor rink] and take shots at my face with his buddies. He would do that, and he did that for a while.” [Devils]

• Mikko Koskinen and....the 2020-21 Vezina Trophy? [Oilers Nation]

• What’s left for the Maple Leafs to do to become Stanley Cup contenders? [Maple Leafs Nation]

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Sean Leahy is a writer for Pro Hockey Talk on NBC Sports. Drop him a line at phtblog@nbcsports.com or follow him on Twitter @Sean_Leahy.