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I had just been thinking that all these shots are nice, but we better score at least one more before TB wakes up.

That goal should do wonders for his confidence.

Neither one is very expensive. But can they actually improve our fourth (?) line? Granlund has been a roughly 20-30 point scorer for the past few seasons but has struggled in Edmonton, would Julien be able to bring him back to form? He's only 26 so not too old yet. Andreoff is two years older and hasn't scored more than 0.2 ppg in a season yet, so the ceiling looks lower.

Duh! Sorry about that.

So ... Mete is back. And we think Kotkaniemi tomorrow. But we're still missing Drouin, Armia, Byron and Peca. And Laval has Poehling, Belzile, Juulsen, Varone, Weise and Hudon injured. That's a pretty long list. Fortunately most of them are not major injuries.

Well ... so what is a "decade" in this context? If it's January 2010 to December 2019, then the 2010 playoffs are included. If it's 2010-2011 to 2019-2020 seasons, then not (but current season is only half included at this point).

He only had one season with the Habs in this decade, but I would put Halak in as the backup on the strength of the 2010 playoff run alone.

Right. And there are only so many available roster spots between the Habs and the Rocket -- we surely don't want to be sending quality prospects to the ECHL!

That makes sense from a Habs perspective, does it not? He has not yet played top-level SHL so I think it's good for him to gain that experience.

Thanks ... hopefully not serious, then.

What happened to Armia? Did it look serious? We really don't need any more injuries right now. 😓

Kotkaniemi still wearing a no-contact sweater in today's practice.

The orange is certainly distinctive, but I much prefer their classic blue sweaters -- or even the third sweater they have this year.

Not good enough, to be sure. This makes winning at the Peg on Monday all that much more important.

That's five power plays for the Oilers. Well, at least they don't have any dangerous high-skill players on their team ... 😣

You missed a very solid end to the period. I don’t think the Oilers got a single attack going in that time. We’re a goal down going into the third but very much not demoralized.

Yeah. Can’t give McDavid opportunities like that. 😪

The second period has looked far better. Let’s hope Weal’s second penalty doesn’t kill the momentum.

Let’s hope Mete is back for the Jets game.

Alas, no. It’s still Reilly.

It really demonstrates that even a first-round pick is far from a sure thing.

The Athletic’s analysis estimates that adding Hall bumped Arizona’s projected winning % from .473 to .504. That’s 3.1%. Over Arizona’s remaining 46 games that’s an additional 1.4 wins or 2.8 points before he files his UFA papers (and assuming no games lost to injuries). Personally, I don’t think that’s a great return for a first and a third. But admittedly it could be the difference between playoffs and no playoffs.

35 games down, second in the somewhat sad-sack Atlantic division. In spite of the long losing streak, on pace for about 94 points. Need to do better than that to have confidence in a post-season but we're not out of it yet. Kotkaniemi and Mete should be back soon, Drouin not for a while yet. It will be interesting to see whether we can snatch a playoff spot from the jaws of mediocrity.

A second point secured by the MAX!

Very much true. But for sure we are not a championship contender this season. I don't think we would be even if we got a rental player or two.