“Like, ‘Oh f---, maybe we haven’t reached out to Biss yet.’ ”Bissonnette announced his deal the following day — on Twitter, fittingly. At 31, he began the day without a contract, and without word from any team with any interest in signing him. During the season, I barely tweet anymore — I just go on to read articles.”That approach can change with the calendar. Bissonnette has built an audience of more than 726,000 users on Twitter, and as the NHL opened its free agent season on Friday, he reasserted his command of the medium. He has spent the last two seasons in the American Hockey League, skating in the Los Angeles Kings’ farm system.

Source: thestar July 04, 2016 20:48 UTC