“Hey, Murph, look at that,” says former NHL player Kris King, alerting Mike Murphy, his fellow senior vice-president of NHL hockey operations, to the Boston Bruins-Washington Capitals game playing on his TV screen.

“I’m putting it up there so you know. Linesman makes a great call, [Bruins forward] Krejci’s pissed and fires it at the linesman.”

Murphy asks: “They give him a penalty?”

King points to a monitor on the far wall of the 11th-floor NHL war room. “Unsportsmanlike.”