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Oct. 11, Habs vs Flyers, 7 PM


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Montreal Canadiens (2-0-0)

Projected Lineup

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Max Pacioretty - David Desharnais - Brendan Gallagher
Alex Galchenyuk - Tomas Plekanec - Jiri Sekac
Rene Bourque - Lars Eller - P-A Parenteau
Brandon Prust - Manny Malhotra - Dale Weise

Andrei Markov - P.K. Subban
Nathan Beaulieu - Tom Gilbert
Jarred Tinordi - Mike Weaver

Carey Price
Dustin Tokarski

Injuries: Crisp, Fournier, Gregoire, McCarron, Nevins, Thrower (SOIR), Emelin (DTD)

Scratches: Michael Bournival, Travis Moen

Philadelphia Flyers (0-2-0)

Projected Lineup

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Brayden Schenn - Claude Giroux - Jakub Voracek
Matt Read - Sean Couturier - Wayne Simmonds
Michael Raffl - Vincent Lecavalier - R.J. Umberger
Zac Rinaldo - Pierre-Edouard Bellemare - Jason Akeson

Andrew MacDonald - Nick Schultz
Nicklas Grossman - Mark Streit
Michael Del Zotto - Luke Schenn

Ray Emery
Steve Mason

Injuries: Braydon Coburn, Chris Pronger, Kimmo Timonen, Ryan White

Scratches: Blair Jones

Team Leaders Montreal Philadelphia

Game Notes

Goals Plekanec (3) Simmonds (2) Puck Drop: 7:00 PM EST
Assists 3 tied with (2) 3 tied with (2) National TV: City, TVA Sports
Points Plekanec (3) Simmonds (3) Regional TV: N/A
PIMS Prust (7) L. Schenn (7) English Radio: TSN 690
+/- 8 tied with (+2) MacDonald/Simmonds (+2) French Radio: FM 98.5
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Some notes:

- It's the same referees as against Washington (Rob Martell and Chris Lee).

- Dave Randorf/Garry Galley have the call for the HNIC on City broadcast.

- The Bulldogs start their season tonight. You can find their GDT here (which includes line combos from practice for those curious as to who's playing where).

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Even just listening to the radio feed, it was pretty clear that Orpik was a real wrecking ball. He will not be able to continue at that pace, nor is his cap hit defensible, but holy cow, what a beast on opening night.

Philly's an interesting roster, kind of a mish-mash of excellent young guys and on-the-decline geezers. A whole lot of reclamation projects going on there, right down to the netminding. They're not bad, but not scary either. Nice to see this most loathsome of organizations spinning its wheels in a bit of a morass of mediocrity.

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Even just listening to the radio feed, it was pretty clear that Orpik was a real wrecking ball. He will not be able to continue at that pace, nor is his cap hit defensible, but holy cow, what a beast on opening night.

Philly's an interesting roster, kind of a mish-mash of excellent young guys and on-the-decline geezers. A whole lot of reclamation projects going on there, right down to the netminding. They're not bad, but not scary either. Nice to see this most loathsome of organizations spinning its wheels in a bit of a morass of mediocrity.

Orpik is sooo over paid, but he was a wrecking ball out there for sure
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The Flyers are hamstrung for the next few years as they still pay out 5M annually to Pronger. That kind of obligation would take the contender status out of a lot of teams.

Speaking of Pronger - I guess it is possible to turn an arsonist into Smoky The Bear.

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Was freaking out because I thought I wasn't going to get the game on TV, turns out I have the City channel afterall, lucky to have that particular channel on my cable package... didn't even know I had it until today :monkey:

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The Flyers are hamstrung for the next few years as they still pay out 5M annually to Pronger. That kind of obligation would take the contender status out of a lot of teams.

Speaking of Pronger - I guess it is possible to turn an arsonist into Smoky The Bear.

All I can say is, the NHL had better not find some cute way to get him off Philly's books just because they inexplicably want this head-hunter to be their boss of "player safety."

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Right now, Pronger doesn't count against their cap as he is on the injured reserve. If he retires, they get a cap hit. The cba prohibits a player working for the nhl while being on a teams roster, injured or not.

The nhl just ignored this rule. Pronger should be forced to retire and Philly should have to take the cap hit for it. The original contract was a blatant circumvention of the cap as it was, now the league is in "league" with them again.

Disgusting, imo

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Right now, Pronger doesn't count against their cap as he is on the injured reserve. If he retires, they get a cap hit. The cba prohibits a player working for the nhl while being on a teams roster, injured or not.

The nhl just ignored this rule. Pronger should be forced to retire and Philly should have to take the cap hit for it. The original contract was a blatant circumvention of the cap as it was, now the league is in "league" with them again.

Disgusting, imo

100%. But everyone is so used to the NHL being run as a bush-league old boy's club, with different rules for different owners/teams/players, that it's hardly worth bothering to be outraged about it.

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Exactly Brobin! It certainly isn't fair to the rest of the teams, when teams were handing out the big contracts because they could afford it.

Boston and Savard, same stuff....

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