PHT Morning Skate: Debating Rick Nash’s value

PHT’s Morning Skate takes a look around the world of hockey to see what’s happening and what we’ll be talking about around the NHL world and beyond.

Adrian Dater compares the 2004-05 lockout to next season’s potential work stoppage. (Sports Illustrated)

Is Rick Nash overrated? (SNY reacting to EJ Hradek)

NHL.com calls Martin Havlat the San Jose Sharks’ X-factor. (NHL.com)

Chris Roberts provides a comprehensive roundup of this summer’s free agent moves. (Litter Box Cats)

Linda Sparks provides a fascinating look into the history of women’s hockey. (On the Forecheck)

Eric Stephens takes a look at Bobby Ryan‘s future with the Anaheim Ducks – assuming he has one, of course. (OC Register via Rotoworld)

“The death last week of the Rangers star Don Raleigh at 86 severed another of the last links to a long-vanished world of hockey where the ice was brown, chicken-wire fencing guarded the ends of the rink and a skinny player who developed a taste for opera could make it in the NHL.”

- Jeff Z. Klein (The New York Times)

Tim Panaccio’s take on the lockout. (CSNPhilly.com)