Three very interesting days in store for the NHL, beginning with Sunday’s one-day supermarket sweep of a draft in Newark.
On Monday, provided all goes as expected, the league likely will finalize plans to send its best and brightest to Sochi, Russia, for the fast-approaching Olympics. This has been an agenda item since the last Winter Games in Vancouver in February 2010.
And finally (and we say this with fingers and sticks crossed), a vote expected to take place among city fathers Tuesday in Glendale, Ariz., should determine whether the Coyotes stay put or if they’ll pack up in Colt-like fashion, be it to Seattle or Quebec City.
Kevin Paul Dupont can be reached at dupont@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeKPD. Material from interviews, wire services, other beat writers, and league and team sources was used in this report.
