JoeLassister

I can't picture MB wanting to grab Burakovsky. Unless he has a wonderful attitude that no one ever heard about...

What has changed is that we stretched the elastic band as far as we could in regards to giving too much icetime and responsabilities to 4 of our 6 dmen in front of Niemi. Everyone but Petry and Weber is playing in the wrong chair.

I thought that Mete was quite exposed yesterday. Barkov and cie were entring the zone on his side a lot and created TONS of scoring chances on the rush.

I remember Puljujarvi at the WJ with Laine. He was playing damn good along with the sniper. I never thought he would fail to pan out as it is right now in Edmonton. Looked like he had all the tools. Dunno about his hockey IQ and his ability to adapt to NHL hockey though. Haven't watch Oilers game enough to tell.

This is what Brunet wrote + a rough translation of mine : "Pour faire une histoire courte, Ryan Poehling est donc considéré comme un joueur collégial de 19 ans pour les règles touchant au ballottage et à l'élargissement des cadres, mais comme un joueur de 20 ans pour le statut contractuel." "Long story short, Ryan Poehling is considered as a 19 yo college player for rules about waivers and expansion but as a 20 yo player in terms of contract status.

Mathias Brunet wrote a piece today. He says that he had some words with John Sedwick, Habs Vice President of Hockey ops and legal affairs, and Sedwick confirmed that Poehling could play some games at the end of this season + playoffs without being exposed at Seattle's expension draft. However, it would count as a year of his entry level contract. Thoughts ? Could he come in for the playoffs and have an impact like McAvoy did a few seasons ago ?

That backhand by KK was so slick. Glimpse of a true future impact player right there.

Alright, you make a good point. Torches and Pitchforks out !

Yo Trizzak, wanna start a downvote frenzy on his ass ?

Well... Getzlaf (7-10-17) and Perry (6-9-15, same points total as Pronger and Selanne) ended up 1st and 2nd in scoring for the Ducks during their Cup run. And both scored 3 less points during those playoffs than their higher total a few years later (Getzlaf 20pts in 14-15 and Perry 18pts in 14-15).

Ah ok. Considering the fact that we only paid Simon Bourque to get Armia, a 4th and a 7th (and taking Mason's contract), should we look forward into PAYING a 2nd rounder to take Talbot or Rieder, BUT, along with Puljujarvi ? A little bit like what the Canes did with Bickell/Teravainen ? We have several 2nd roundes, don't we ?

Hard to tell who's the cap dump between Talbot and Rieder.

Any legal CBA reason why Andrew Shaw would not be at yesterday Rona Skill contest ? Not allowed to hit the ice or juste done for good ?

Pretty confident that the suspension would have been 2 games if he'd have received a game misconduct on the play.

Best game in a Habs uniform by Niemi ? Can’t recall any better.