Afternoon Scrum 12/23/09

Hockey headlines for the CBJ and from around the league. Mmmmm... hockey

• Jackets take on the Stars tonight in Big D. Here are the game previews from the Dispatch, DallasNews, and ESPN.
• Tom Reed writes of the somewhat unique and unenviable position CBJ F Jared Boll finds himself in tonight against the Stars.
• Ryan Dixon of THN has an interesting look at the current wave of long-term player contracts and speculates on the effects those deals will have on free agency and the trade deadlines of seasons' future.
• In 1979 Bruins D Mike Milbury went over the glass to help a Rangers fan relocate his shoe from his foot to his face. Classic. The NYT with the retrospective.
• Devils G Martin Brodeur continues to rack up record after record. His latest came Monday night as he claimed 1st place on the all-time shutout list, notching his 104th. THN takes a look at Brodeur's Top 10 records.
• Pierre LeBrun of ESPN.com shares his 2 cents on Hitch and the current state of play with the team.
• Pond Hockey: A Documentary Film will be aired on the NHL Network December 30th as part of the League's Winter Classic lineup. Check it out! I will try to remember to repost this before it airs... I'm setting my DVR when I get home.
• Finally, Puckrakers reports that the flu continues to spread through the clubhouse and now Huselius may be out of the lineup. Methot is in again for Stralman.