What really happened between the Rangers and Canucks? How will Frank Vatrano's contract deferrals work? Elliotte Friedman covers that and more in a new 32 Thoughts blog.

Rumors of a rift between Vancouver Canucks forwards Elias Pettersson and J.T. Miller picked up again over the weekend.

the idea that Elias Pettersson started playing better while Miller was out of the lineup is a total fallacy. Pettersson’s game had greatly improved even before Miller left the lineup.

Carson Soucy took a cross-checking penalty to give the Blues their first power play of the night with just a hair under seven ... nearly a full minute before Elias Pettersson found Conor Garland ...

He's the leading scorer on the Canucks this season, eight points ahead of Elias Pettersson through ... "It's Hughes by a hair over Makar, and something tells me this is going to the wire," another ...

He's the leading scorer on the Canucks this season, eight points ahead of Elias Pettersson through Sunday's games ... and he's on the ice a lot," one voter noted. "It's Hughes by a hair over Makar, ...