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Perhaps the Habs can get a first round pick out of Treliving for taking Marner’s contract 🥳 I can’t remember a single great trade that Treliving made.

Watched a bit of the end of season leaf presser and I just shake my head. The way they talked about Shanahan being a champion made me laugh out loud. Here is to 10 more years of failure 🎉

Thanks for adding context to his stats. If hockey IQ is a question then I don’t think it fits a HuGo type player. I remember Hughes taking about how important hockey IQ is to him.

If drafted we can be sure the Habs doctors were very thorough. I agree with you The player himself looks perfect for what we need. He sounds like Slafkovsky in size and style and it would be nice to have two Slafkovskys

He seems to be perfect as far as skill set but is there an injury problem?

I love your enthusiasm for Barron. It would be utterly amazing if Barron turned into Petry. Our RD position would be exceptionally strong and it would allow Guhle back on the left. Hope your analysis proves true.

The way the Oilers were flying in the first I was expecting a lopsided game. The second period was when either Edmonton slowed down or Vancouver picked it up. The third period was Edmonton letting Vancouver walk right in and get chances. Very curious that Mcdavid didn’t register a shot because from what I could tell Vancouver didn’t have a “shutdown” player on him (like Danault shadowing). McDavid played against different lines and D pairings. My favourite series of round 2 for sure. Game 2 is going to be a really strong game from Edmonton I bet. I mean a dominant win I can’t wait to watch

I see many proposals about Calgary moving up to #5 to draft Iginla. The general consensus being trading Calgary’s #9 pick plus Vancouver’s first rounder (maybe pick #32 🥳). Im not sure that is enough.

I think Keefe was a poor coach so this isn’t surprising. Is Brind’amour the next coach? Or is Carolina going to pay the man? Shanahan, the sands of time for you are running low…

Yes that’s one main point, BOTH sides lost

Yeah the first period was rough but Edmonton just danced around the Vancouver zone. Always looking for that cross pass through the goal mouth for that tap in. When Vancouver got on their rush game, Edmonton looked clueless about taking care in their Dzone I picked Vancouver to win the series and I think that’s what will happen.

This is the entire point of a discussion board. To share ideas and opinions and debate those ideas and opinions. I agree with the idea that Bergevin tried to use the Canes roster/cap/financial liquidity to get a bargain. But that’s my problem. Bergevin never addressed our lack of forwards because he always looked for bargains. Hughes solved our centre problem immediately and he did so by paying the required cost. Bergevin was trying to get Aho for cheaper than what he paid for Dvorak! All of this is water under the bridge and this board has had endless discussions about Bergevin’s competency. If we want to rehash the Bergevin talk then maybe we need a new thread.

So that entire debacle was about revenge? Bergevin gets butthurt so he offer sheets a star player. That team gets butthurt and offer sheets a young, top pick. Habs get screwed by overpaying for Dvorak and Canes get screwed by overpaying for a potential bust. All because of ego…, I genuinely love the professionalism of our new HuGo overlords.

What a great game in Vancouver. It’s now 5-4 Canucks with 4 minutes to go in the third. What a third period by Vancouver

Final 20 names for Utah up for fan vote: