The highly anticipated collaboration between P.K. Subban and Snoop Dogg will have to wait a year.

The charity basketball game featuring the Montreal Canadiens defenseman and the legendary rapper has been postponed until 2017, according to a statement issued to Bill Brownstein of the Montreal Gazette.

The game was originally scheduled for June 11, 2016 at Montreal's Verdun Auditorium, but it will now be played next summer at a larger venue, the Bell Centre.

The Just for Laughs comedy festival will join forces with local event promotion company Evenko to raise more money for the two stars' foundations.

"Just For Laughs, P.K. Subban, and Snoop Dogg have been thrilled by the response to this event, but realized there was a much greater opportunity to raise money for charity," the statement said.

"Just For Laughs will now partner with Evenko and the Bell Centre to produce an even more exciting and exceptional event as part of Just For Laughs' 35th anniversary edition.”

Snoop will perform in Montreal on the originally planned date next week, as part of the Canadian Grand Prix festivities.

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Jersey ads are coming to the World Cup of Hockey.

While speaking at the Brand Engagement Summit in Chicago, NHL chief marketing officer Brian Jennings said the league has sold sponsorships on the shoulders of the jerseys, according to Sports Business Daily.

Related: NHL reveals 2016 World Cup jerseys​

The NHL sees the World Cup as a test run for jersey ads, and plans to monitor how fans react to the new patches.

"With the use of technology, you're in a real-time dialogue that lets you know what they think and feel about it," Jennings said.

There's no word on who bought the jersey ads, or how much the sponsorships cost. Last year, TSN reported the league was seeking $8 million for the ad space.

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Florida Panthers, we hardly recognize thee.

The organization continued its top-to-bottom offseason renovation Thursday with the unveiling of its new uniform and primary logo at a season-ticket holders event at BB&T Center.

The look eschews the classic leaping cat logo associated with the franchise since its launch in 1993, and introduces a more composed panther adorned on a definitive crest.

The military-style badge is stitched onto a thick horizontal stripe that wraps around the uniform, and the captain and alternates will have a small soccer-style patch on the arm to denote their expanded roles.

The Panthers' captains will wear the traditional letters on their left shoulders in addition to the sleeve patch.

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Just one day after it was reported he wouldn't return as an assistant coach with the St. Louis Blues, Kirk Muller has already found a new job.

Montreal Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin announced Thursday that Muller was appointed the team's new associate coach.

"We are very pleased to announce the appointment of Kirk Muller, and are extremely happy about his desire to return to the Canadiens' organization," Bergevin said.

"Kirk brings a great deal of experience, determination and leadership, and I have no doubt that these qualities will be essential for our coaching staff. Kirk has a thorough knowledge of the Montreal market, he enjoyed success as a player, and as captain of the Canadiens, and these assets will certainly contribute to the success of our team."

Muller helped Montreal win its most recent Stanley Cup as a player in 1993, and was named captain in 1994, only to be traded midway through the season.

He returned to Montreal in 2006, and spent five seasons as an assistant coach. Before joining the Blues, he spent parts of three seasons as the head coach of the Carolina Hurricanes, missing the playoffs each year.

The Canadiens later confirmed that the team won't fire any of their current assistants to make room for Miller, according to NHL.com's Arpon Basu.

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It's Stanley's turn to brave The Shark Tank.

The Stanley Cup Final will land in Northern California for the first time ever Saturday when the San Jose Sharks host the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 3 of the season's culminating series.

Here are five reasons to look forward to the series' first stop in San Jose:

The Desperation

There'll be no easing into the Stanley Cup spectacle in San Jose; the Sharks absolutely must win Saturday's Game 3 to avoid seeing the franchise's debut appearance after 25 years from being a read-through.

The Sharks have faced elimination in these playoffs, but the plight they overcame in their second-round series versus the Nashville Predators pales in comparison to the blow Conor Sheary delivered in Game 2.

We have to see San Jose at its very best - at the jump - or it's more than likely curtains for the Sharks before even getting accustomed to these foreign waters.

The Jock Jams

These Sharks have something for "Chelsea Dagger."

Hands down, the best goal celebration song in the NHL belong to the Sharks, who encapsulate their endearing, self-deprecating, wholly new lease on life by slapping mitts to a throwback to gym classes everywhere in the '90s: 2 Unlimited's "Get Ready For This."

Full credit to the fans, who voted this classic Jock Jam in as the team's official goal song. We'd like to believe Brent Burns and Joe Thornton stuffed the ballot box, too.

The Tank

It will be how the Sharks - not the fans - handle being pushed into a corner for the first time this tournament. For a support system that knows nothing but postseason failure, though, an adverse start, and the heightened prospects of a swift elimination already being down 0-2, could have a discernible effect on the atmosphere.

That said, The Shark Tank has represented one of the more inhospitable road barns to visit over the past half-decade, and the fans will be most appropriately hyped for their first opportunity to welcome the Stanley Cup Final foe.

The Head

Seriously, there's no cooler on-ice prop to send a billowing cloud of fake fog through and to wheel out of. And it's not particularly close.

The Teal

For my money, the best jersey in the NHL - the Penguins' throwback third - happens to be one of the most underrated. The Cup Final will remain aesthetically pleasing as the series shifts to Northern California, where the Sharks will don what they like to call "Deep Pacific teal."

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After a busy few weeks, a sprained ankle will keep Matthew Tkachuk from participating in fitness tests at the NHL Scouting Combine, writes NHL.com's Mike Morreale.

"I'm going to hold off on the testing," Tkachuk said. "I'm a little dinged up. There's no point in doing any of the bike tests or the testing right now if I'm not 100 percent. Whichever team drafts me, I'll be excited to test at development camp and see where I rank. We'll see what they think and go from there."

Tkachuk, a First Team OHL All-Star, helped the London Knights to the Memorial Cup, scoring the tournament winner in overtime. He had 30 goals and 77 assists during the regular season, and 20 goals and 20 assists in 18 playoff games, before his heroics at the Memorial Cup.

Ranked second among North American skaters by the NHL ahead of the draft this month, Tkachuk's stock is "gaining momentum" after his dominant spring, one executive told Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman.

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Everyone's a blogger these days, including Pittsburgh's Jeff Zatkoff.

The Penguins' third-string goaltender is writing for NHL.com during the Stanley Cup Final, and he dropped an interesting nugget in his reaction to Game 2 about what he expected to be a joyous flight to San Jose.

This is a big one for us. It's only two, but it's nice to protect your home ice. Now we go there and it should make for a better flight coming off a "W."

So now I'll get to play some cards on the flight with Phil Kessel, Chris Kunitz and Nick Bonino. It's a long one so we'll have lots of time to hustle Phil. He thinks he's a player, but I think the guys in Toronto let him win because he hasn't won much this year.

Phil talks a big game. He's the No. 4 ranked player at the table out of four. This should be a great flight.

Kessel spent six seasons with the Maple Leafs, losing a hell of a lot more games than he won. Toronto made the playoffs once during No. 81's time with the club, losing to the Boston Bruins - the team that drafted him and traded him to the Maple Leafs - in a memorable seven-game series. Yes, it was 4-1 in Game 7 for the Maple Leafs.

Based on what Kessel went through in Toronto, Zatkoff's theory makes sense. He had to take wins where he could, even if they were given to him.

Acquired by the Penguins last summer, it appears a very happy ending may be in store for Kessel, in the form of a Stanley Cup. Pittsburgh's two wins away, with five games left to turn the trick, and he leads the club in playoff scoring with 19 points in 20 games.

Phil Kessel, Stanley Cup winner. Phil Kessel, Conn Smythe Trophy candidate. Phil Kessel, terrible cards player. Yeah, he'll take that, we think.

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NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly isn't worried about the internal conflict swirling around the Carolina Hurricanes.

"We know a lot more about what's going on in Carolina than the average person and what's public," Daly said on "Hockey Central at Noon" on Sportsnet 590 The FAN on Thursday.

Hurricanes owner Peter Karmanos is being sued by his three sons for $105 million, with the sons alleging their father borrowed the money from trust accounts promised to them in his will in order to fund the team.

Daly insisted it's nothing more than a familial dispute and downplayed the effect it will have on the NHL.

"I view the public litigation to be more along the lines of a family squabble than anything that would raise material concern for the league in and of itself," the deputy commissioner said.

"You have to understand the entire situation, and we're obviously, on the whole, comfortable with the entire situation of what's going on in Carolina."

One of Karmanos' sons, Jason, was fired from his role as executive vice-president and assistant general manager of the Hurricanes in the fall of 2013, reportedly over a "family matter." He was later hired by the Pittsburgh Penguins.

None of Karmanos' sons attended his induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame last November.

The owner has been trying to find a buyer for the club, but wants to ensure it remains in North Carolina.

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