Daily Cupcakes: September 14th, 2017

Colorado Avalanche

Avalanche will retire Hejduk’s No. 23 in January ceremony. I’m so glad to see his number go up in the rafters, it would seem so wrong on someone else. What is your favorite Hejduk memory? [Sportsnet]

More Duchene articles, everyone must be looking forward to this chapter ending soon. There’s doubt surrounding Duchene hovers over Avalanche as NHL training camps begin. [The Star]

The Rest of the Game

Brain of former NHL player, Jeff Parker, to be donated for CTE research. [TSN]

Here’s how Calgary’s Saddledome stacks up against other NHL rinks. It’s old. It’s the second oldest rink in the NHL.  [CBC]

Predators’ Vernon Fiddler retires from NHL after 14 seasons. [Tennessean]

There are 144 WHL players attend NHL training camps.  [WHL]

Iginla being ‘selective’ in search for NHL home. [Toronto Sun]

Do Edmonton Oilers have too little NHL depth, too much AHL depth on defence? [Edmonton Journal]