Coach, league clash over glowing puck
Detroit coach Scotty Bowman attacked the glowing Fox puck, and NHL senior vice-president Brian Burke is furious. Burke says the Fox puck, which is embedded with microchips, meets league specifications, but the players say it seems to bounce more because it isn't frozen in the same way.
Wings defenseman Jamie Macoun had never played in a Fox game until being sent to Detroit at the trading deadline, and on Sunday he leisurely skated back to touch a puck on an apparent icing. But the neon puck suddenly slowed, the icing was waved off and Dallas wound up scoring. Understandably, the league wants to stick up for a television partner, but if a high-profile coach like Bowman raises a stink, the NHL has a problem.