At its root, the whole Ilya Bryzgalov media availability flap was not (or at least should not have been) about whether a particular player is there to provide colorful quotes. It was certainly not about the goaltender’s need to focus on his game. Rather, it was fundamentally about team control of the flow of information. Apart from the Bryzgalov situation — where the team (mostly) gave in by

Read the original: Bill Meltzer