On the Beat: Hedican announces retirement

What team beat writers are saying this afternoon:

• Bret Hedican announced his retirement from the National Hockey League today. Hedican enjoyed a nice long career in the NHL and had some of the best wheels in the game.
• Empty Netters (one of my favourite blogs out there) has a multitude of news and notes from each division in the National Hockey League and provides a sneak peek of Wilkes-Barre Scranton’s new third jersey. Has Nikolai Zherdev fled for the KHL?
• The Vancouver Canucks released seven players from training camp this morning.
• This was posted earlier on this morning by Capitals Insider Tarik El-Bashir but I thought I would pass this along anyways. Apparently there are several fake Capitals player Twitter accounts.
• Ducks 2009 1st Round Draft Pick Peter Holland is making the most of his first NHL training camp.
• 41-year-old Calgary Flames phenomenon Theoren Fleury should apparently make his pre-season debut on Thursday night against the New York Islanders.

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