Fish for Breakfast - May 26

• We thank Jeff Vinik, the owner of the Tampa Bay Lightning, for choosing a slow news day to announce the hiring of Steve Yzerman as the "world class" franchise's next general manager.
• Who knew that the Calgary Flames were considering Yzerman as a potential candidate? It looks like Darryl Sutter will get another chance to fix up the Flames now.
• Speaking of Albertan teams that need a fix, Edmonton Oilers' general manager Steve Tambellini still isn't saying who he plans on picking first overall come June 25.
• Before we head back south to the United States, Down Goes Brown and Bloge Salming eulogize the Montreal Canadiens in what is one of the best eulogies I have ever seen.

• Brendan Shanahan thinks the Philadelphia Flyers should use Kimmo Timonen (5-10, 194), instead of Chris Pronger (6-6, 230), against defenseman-turned-forward Dustin Byfuglien (6-4, 257). Speed and quickness, as Shanahan says, will be more important than size. Just ask the Canucks or the Sharks, two teams that countered Byfuglien with size - it created a larger screen in front of Roberto Luongo and Evgeni Nabokov, respectively.
• Peter Laviolette, on the other hand, said that Pronger and Byfuglien are "sure [to] see a lot of each other". Good luck in advance, Michael Leighton.
• Bobby Ryan scored 35 goals this season and is finally making a name for himself. No longer known as "the guy drafted right after Sidney Crosby", Ryan is in for a big raise this offseason after making less than a million dollars this past season. James O'Brien takes a look at how much Ryan is worth - Jordan Staal money? Ryan Getzlaf money? Nicklas Backstrom money?
• Scott Reynolds over at The Copper & Blue looks at how teams have fared when drafting goaltenders from 2003 to 2005; your Penguins are ranked eighth in the league.
• According to a report by Derek Zona, Sidney Crosby scored 9.1 more goals this season than his expected total. It puts him fifth in the league, behind Mikael Samuelsson (14.1), Jussi Jokinen (11.2), Alexandre Burrows (10.1), and Stephen Weiss (9.3).
• And over in the world of baseball, David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox became the first player this year to "break" the 30-second barrier on a home run trot. By comparison, Adam Rosales, of the Oakland Athletics, rounded the bases in 15.89 seconds on April 28; it took Ortiz 16.39 seconds to touch second base.

Stanley Cup Final previews and more coverage will likely start showing up in the links here tomorrow. Once again, I'll likely add a few more links throughout the day as I go through my daily reads.