It takes some sass and a lot of brass to troll Donald Trump on Halloween (“It was just a costume”), crack snark about your dog after leaving millions of dollars on the table in a contract extension (“Lenny won’t go hungry”), and whinge about the Blue Jays-Dodgers World Series Game 7 shown live on the scoreboard while your own team is playing below. (“That was really strange. I’m glad they shut it off in the third’’).

The NHL isn’t known for touting great big personalities as the most buttoned-down and gartered-up of professional sports leagues, where the stars are over-groomed to never say anything even mildly indelicate or quoteworthy. Marquee shimmer looks like Sidney Crosby, perennially boy-bland, or Auston Matthews, who’s been doing a generic imitation of reserved Canadian for

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