Commandant

Good return.

There is NO ####ING WAY this Happens. This is delusional. The canes would be fined a massive amount and have draft picks stripped if they admit to this. Meanwhile KK would never play in the league again. You know who else would be done in the NHL? His agent. This is business not some conspiracy shit.

Likely yes

You can cheer for whoever or whatever you want. You can be a fan of whoever and whatever you want. I just will always cheer for whatever helps the Habs the most. Cause I cheer for the Habs over everything else. The logo on the front, not the name on the back of the jersey.

2 realistically. I dont care about the empty netter (Another reason why plus/minus sucks, the empty netters)

#### that.... I will be cheering for the Jets to lose in the 1st or 2nd round so the Habs pick is better Montreal over everything.

Carolina took one look at this guy, who also has a public video of himself doing cocaine, and said... yup that's better than KK

summer buyout

Barron has been fine in Laval. The struggle mentionned above is massively overblown. The problem is that at this point and the amount of NHL games hes played, i want more than fine in the AHL.

Start by moving Savard and Norlinder, the rest, keep playing them til you are sure who are the best ones and then move those you dont see in your future.

Guhle is playing the right side and has been for a while. Xhekaj has been second pair with Savard as of late, which is a good test for now.

Switching the Winger for a centre i guess. Perreault may be stagnating for them in the AHL and they want to see if Mysak takes off with a change of scenery.

Yeah i liked him in junior. I think the covid season cancelling the OHL didnt help him. He basically lost that year when he should have been developing. Hes seemed to become a bottom six AHL guy too.

I was thinking ylonen or evans or norlinder but ill take this. Perreault is younger and did more at the AHL level. Not sure hes NHL quality but think hes better than Mysak.

After the trade deadline the 23 man roster limit disappears. I'd paper Roy down so he's eligible for AHL playoffs, but then call him right back up. He should play NHL games for development as he's succeeding against that competition.

Not true at all. The issue of doing right by the player has been something that has come up in the Monahan trade, in the Allen situation, Petry (both times), Edmundson, and in a number of others. but sure, crap on this front office and praise the last one. You could have showed me this post with no name on it and I would have known immediately who wrote it, its very predictable. But yeah Bergevin was so good for the players, he banned legends like Believeau and Lafleur from talking to them, such a good guy that Bergevin.

I think we get one minor deal.

Walker is much more of a puck moving defenceman than Savard, he's also UFA this summer and the salary cleared for next year is entirely free, while Savard would be on their books next season.

Who do we have equivalent to Walker?

Ideally the 2nd line is made up of Dach, a free agent/traded player, and then the third spot is Roy vs Newhook with the loser on the third line. That said, if they can't get a big acquisition, it could be Roy - Dach - Newhook. Either way, I think we want a top 9 that can all provide some offence, especially since we are likely to use 8 forwards on the PP (4 per unit).

LMAO

Yes, certainly possible, but who is to prove when that was discussed. There is no evidence of tampering prior to July 1st, and even if there was, this happens with every team in the league. Your issue could be worth the league looking into (they won't but it should have been). The other issue of having Finnish players talk to KK.... meh....

Nothing is illegal if it happened over the summer. Carolina (and anyone else) could talk to KK as of July 1st that summer. Once you are RFA you can negotiate an offer sheet with any team. The fact it took him til August to sign one when he could have signed 6 weeks earlier, suggests the opposite, there was no illegal tampering. Its not like it was july 1st and hes free to talk to teams at noon, and hes signing paperwork at 12:15. Those deals are always more suspicious to me.

Our end of Feb articles are coming out this week. Its a three person panel voting. Ill relase my own list after they are all out.

Im going to the mat for Helenius. Im telling you this is the guy. Ive seriously got him at #2. Theres just something there. I think hes gonna be a star. This is how i felt on Quinn Hughes back in the day