Jack Todd: Change is fast and fluid in today's NHL

The weekend had an elegiac feel. The leaves mostly gone, Sunday devoted to honouring those who fell and those who served in our collective wars — including my father, who was on the Western Front in France when the guns fell silent 100 years ago.
The return of former captain Max Pacioretty and the Canadiens’ decision to release Tomas Plekanec marked the end of an era, with two of the central figures in the 21st-century history of the CH now gone the way of Andrei Markov, P.K. Subban,