For three days, SI has hunkered down in the Lightning’s bullpen with coach Jon Cooper and his assistants, attending prescout meetings and strategy sessions, seeing how the league's top team aims to bring order to a chaotic game.

He doesn't believe in diets and thinks dressing conservatively is lame. He can score with any random stick and dazzles with his impromptu passes. There's nothing boring about Evgeny Kuznetsov, the NHL's most creative star. 

Patrick Kane, Patrice Bergeron, Marty Turco and other vets recall what their rookie dinners were like. Light hazing and all.

The Jets winger has been developing the best shot in hockey since he was in the backyard of his childhood home in Finland.