"The Coyotes' locker room, before the beast known as post-practice stench sets in, is a pleasant place.

On this day, Shane Doan is playfully mocking the ego of newly named All-Star Keith Yandle.

"Guys keep coming up to me, 'What are we going to do with him?'" Doan mused. "He doesn't get along with one guy in the room. Nobody likes him."

New center Gilbert Brule is entertaining a reporter by sharing details of his unlikely May meeting, when he picked up a hitchhiker near his West Vancouver home who happened to be U2 frontman Bono.

"I'm like 'What are you doing out here?'" Brule said. "And I'm thinking to myself, 'You can't afford a cab?'""