tomh009

Alas, he's also CEO and vice-chair of the board ...

Yorkshire! 😊 You're lucky. We lived for three months in a rolled up newspaper in a septic tank. We used to hadta get up a'six in the morning, clean da newspaper, eat a crusta stale bread, go to work down the mill, for a 14 hour day, week in week out for 6 cents a month, and when we got home, our dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt. Luxury. We used to hafta get 'out the lake, 3 am, clean the lake, eat a handful 'o hot gravel, work 20 hours a day at mill, for a penny a month, and dad would beat us about the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were lucky. Well o course we had it tough. We used to have to get up outta shoebox, in middle of night, and lick the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked at mill for 24 hours for a penny a year, When we got home, our dad would slash it in two with bread-knife. Right.. I used to get up in the morning at night at half-past-ten at night, half an hour before I went to bed, Eat a lump of freezing cold poison, work 28 hours a day at mill, and pay da mill owner to let us work there. And when I went home our dad used to murder us in cold blood, each night, and dance about on our graves, singing hallelujah. Yah, you try an tell the young people of today that, and they won't believe you...

If your chances of making the playoffs go down by 20%, surely it's reasonable thar your chances of making the second round also drop by 20%?

From yesterday's Athletic article: “We’re not here without Montembeault,” St. Louis said before the Avalanche game. “This is not the time of year for sending messages. Our group has a lot of confidence, they know I believe in them and I believe in Monty. We’re not here without him.”

Agree that trading for high-end players will usually cost high-end players (though sometimes draft picks can help). But on the flip-side, trading someone like a Caufield or Slafkovsky has risk, too: the new player may not fit in or be happy or produce in the Montreal environment, and then we have taken a step backward. Right now the boys are really playing as a team, playing for each other, and that, too, has value. Given that a band-aid may be sufficient (we may have a 2C in our prospect pool yet) I would hope that Hughes would choose the UFA route. But we shall see ...

Signing Granlund would be another band-aid but would not create any holes ...

Some fans want to trade him. But does Davidson really want to do that?

Granlund might like a long-term contract but what team would be willing to sign him for four or five years at this point?

We won't pick in the 25-28 range. The Cup winner picks 32, the finals loser 31, and the conference finals losers 29-30. 25-28 are the regular-season division winners that did not make it to the conference finals; otherwise the rest of the playoff teams are ranked by regular-season results.

Gallagher, Newhook and Carrier? 🙂

Bobrovsky 6 GSAx Montembeault 19 GSAx They might have some regret now about waiving him ...

Maybe keeping Dvorak on a short-term contract would make more sense than a big-money UFA on a seven-year deal?

He could possibly be "in the mix" this year ... 😊

Four points from four games on that swing, it could have been worse. Calgary was not to be the way Wolf played so I think I'll be satisfied with the total. What I see the biggest obstacle is the total of three (!) games against Florida in the next two weeks and a bit. With the Panthers fighting to win the division, will the Habs be able to match them?

For set plays--such as a PP faceoff in the offensive zone--it is an enabler, though.

Indeed.

More than 11 minutes (in three of the six games) is not bad ice time for a fresh rookie.

Dallas and Florida have their own Finns as well. It may be personal relationships with the other Finns on those teams--or the allure of the Cup.

Whether he returns this season or next, a less severe injury is good news either way.

Indeed, Sabres fans don't seem to unhappy with the trade.

4-3 final. Laval back on top with the best points percentage in the AHL.

I think so, too. Not nearly as severe a cut as was thought. I trust that the Habs are going to be conservative but there are still 20 games remaining, so I expect to see him playing again unless there is a sudden collapse in the next few weeks.

The (guess)estimates after the injury projected 4-6 months for recovery. He's skating again after less than six weeks, so it must have been a less serious injury than they thought.

A fair point, yes.

Wheeler projects him as a #3/4 goalie so I'm not even sure that I'd do it if Briere were being stupid. By comparison, Wheeler has Dobes projected as a #1B/2, and Fowler higher than that.