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Benoit has been sent down to Hamilton for conditioning. http://tinyurl.com/yjmwhqd

Here's a link to an article where Craig Ludwig says good things about LeBlanc: http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=423360&...id=rss-mcgourty . (It's down towards the bottom of the article.)

Bob Gainey's best total in junior was 22 goals. At the NHL his best goal total was 23. That's a whopping difference of one. I've learnt my lesson.

Actually I was talking about junior (which a player can actuaklly play until he's about 20) and Ahl Echl etc. BTW, Matt D'agostini is not 18, and I never said not to draft 18 year old.

That's right, it's ridiculous to think a guy who has been a consistent 20 goal scorer at every level will be at best a 20 scorer. At the junior level these guys get more ice time against lesser opponents. It would make perfect sense that less icetime against a higher level of competetion would mean far greater offensive numbers. All those examples you gave-like Mario Lemieux, Gretztky, Crosby-who were all 20 goal scores at the junior and AHL level totally proved your point. He's not a late bloomer, he's putting up the kind of numbers you would expect. Guy Carbonneau would proove the argument I would make: guys do not become better scorers at the NHL level than they do at the junior level. Some people's assessments of the scoring ability and skill of players like Max Laperriere and D'Agostini is unrealistic. I never said D'ago stunk or that i would give him away for nothing.

D'Agostini is really overrated. This guy has never scored more than 20 goal at any level. Stats for D'Ago

A season of Mara means guys like Subban and Weber get more time to develop. I like these kind of depth signings too.

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5 mil seems like a lot for a 5'7 20 goal scorer.

In theory having a lot of young cheap talent-especially in the cap system- should allow the Habs to package some in trade for an impact player. I'm not sure if our talent is overrated by our organization compared to how other teams rate it, or if Bob just incapable of pulling the trigger on something.

Leblanc played with Danny Kristo in Omaha.

I keep reading that Marleau might be available from SJ. If Lecavalier isn't available could he be an option? My problem with Marleau is that the guy seems wildly inconsistent from season to season.

How could TB trade an asset like Lecavalier with the current state of their franchise? My impression is that no on even knows who's running things inTB. Gm Lawton seems like a moron.

I'm watching sportnets news, according to the news at the bottom of the screen there's a report that the Habs will not offer Koivu a new contract. I don't know if it's worth starting a new thread based on this alone because I haven't heard it anywhere else.

Better Colarado than Montreal In all likekyhood he'll probably be a disaster. If does a good job somewhere down the line Montreal could hire him after he's had experience there.