PHT Morning Skate: #MelnykOut billboards coming to Ottawa; 40 NHL rule changes

Friday's collection of links.

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Likely No. 1 pick Deandre Ayton says he will enter NBA draft

There was no reason to play the "I need to get together with my family and talk over what's best for my future" game.

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Three Things to Know: Cavaliers keep adding questions, Raptors answer theirs

Also, RIP Tom Benson

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PBT Extra: Ben Simmons, Donovan Mitchell in two-man race for Rookie of the Year

The NBA Rookie of the Year race is down to two: Philadelphia’s Ben Simmons and Utah’s Donovan Mitchell. Speaking to media member voters, they seem torn (for the record, I am one of those voters). It’s going to be close and the final weeks may help decide it. However, in a Twitter poll done for

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WATCH LIVE: Pittsburgh Penguins at Montreal Canadiens

The Pens and Habs meet at Bell Centre at 7:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN.

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Danny Ainge: Kyrie Irving eventually will need knee surgery, but not now

Ainge also said Gordon Hayward had a setback last month, which is why the organization does not expect him back.

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Tom Benson, the owner who saved the NBA in New Orleans, dies of the flu at age 90

Benson, 90, had been hospitalized with the flu. He also owned the New Orleans Saints.

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