Gary Bettman and the NHL Owners await the NHLPA counter-offer, something that coudld be presented any day now.

After a big day of news yesterday between the Nashville Predators matching the Philadelphia Flyers offer sheet for Shea Weber, the Bruins making the signing of head coach Claude Julien offical, and the news of Nathan Horton being medically cleared for contact, today was a pretty quiet day for news in the National Hockey League, but we will still go ahead and take a look at todays daily links.

Rick Nash is ready to embrace the New York media. (USA Today)

Newest Blue Jacket Brandon Dubinsky is excited to be in Columbus. (NHL.com)

Former Islanders defencemen Steve Staios is retiring and joining the Toronto Maple Leafs fron office. (TSN.com)

NHL Owners revisit first proposal, await a counter-offer from the NHLPA (Washington Post)

Hockey Buzz’s Ty Anderson tells us we should appricate the Claude Julien era.