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Pens set Obama date; Nestrasil returns; signing Versteeg (Puck Headlines)

Sean Leahy
·Contributing writer

Here are your Puck Headlines: A glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media. Have a link you want to submit? Email us at puckdaddyblog@yahoo.com.

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• The Pittsburgh Penguins will meet President Barack Obama again on Oct. 6 at the White House. [Tribune-Review]

• Alex Ovechkin will captain Russia at the World Cup of Hockey. [NHL.com]

• Joe Pavelski will captain Team USA, and Ryan Suter and Patrick Kane will serve as alternates. [USA Hockey]

• We still won’t know whether NHL players will go to PyeongChang for the 2018 Olympic for quite some time. [CBC]

• Peter Mueller will be in camp with the Boston Bruins on a PTO. He played in Sweden last season. [WEEI]

• Meanwhile, Devin Setoguchi gets a PTO from the Los Angeles Kings. [LA Kings Insider]

• After suffering a fractured vertebra last season, Carolina Hurricanes forward Andrej Nestrasil is back on the ice. [News & Observer]

• Nazem Kadri is fine with letting the Toronto Maple Leafs’ youngsters get the spotlight. [TSN]

• Kris Russell is still unsigned with NHL training camps set to open in two weeks. [PHT]

• Should the Vancouver Canucks pursue Kris Versteeg? [Province]

• Aaron Ekblad is ready to become a leader on the Florida Panthers. [SI.com]

• John Tavares will continue to be asked about Toronto until he signs an extension with the New York Islanders. In the meantime, he keeps responding to those questions by pledging his allegiance to the Isles. Here is “The Complete Encyclopedia of John Tavares telling the Toronto Maple Leafs to get lost” [Lighthouse Hockey]

• Singer and former junior hockey player Bob Bissonnette was killed in a helicopter crash near Campbellton, NB, on Labour Day weekend. [Buzzing the Net]

• Taking a first swing at predicting the NHL standings for the coming season. [TSN]

• Do you remember this hockey card depicting Jacques Lemaire as a Buffalo Sabre, a team he never played for? [Puck Junk]

• Please welcome Pucks and Recreation to the hockey blogosphere. [Pucks and Recreation]

• Looking at some fantasy hockey breakout candidates in the Eastern Conference. [Dobber Hockey]

• Finally, here are some rookie mic’d up at the reason rookie showcase in Toronto: