JoeLassister

The Leafs are broken. Matthews has almost never defended his teamates and it's no surprise no one jumped Gudas for it. Not even a 2 minutes minor for roughing. Matthew gotta go. The team's culture gotta change.

Yes, but Knies is only 23, almost a prospect himself. Why trade him for a prospect 2 years younger instead of unloading Matthews/Tavares/Nylander ?

If I'm the Leafs, I don't want late 1st picks as a return for one of my best players who has a unique profile. I would rather be trading Knies to teams that are in a rebuild or a reset, teams that finished at the bottom of the standings. Teams in a rebuild likely won't trade their early 1st round picks, unless they already posess multiple ones. Teams that might be on a quick reset (maybe the Jets...) could decide not to use an early 1st pick and trade it instead for immediate help like Matthew Knies.

I prefer no double retention and playoffs salary cap over a fun deadline.

Laine makes much more sense to the Kings as they just dealt all of their wingers in the last couple days.

The Kings kinda dealt all their wingers in the last couple days. Laine makes sense to them.

I'm not in the locker room nor around the team at all, but I kinda wish we unload Patrik Laine and avoid him becoming a distraction for the final stretch of the season + playoffs. This is my hope for today.

My take on Hage from last November. Hasn't changed one bit.

It's tricky, cuz they're 2nd in the Metro AND they do have games in hands on almost every other teams.

I don't follow the Rocket that much, so I have a question for you guys. I've read on this forum that F. Xhekaj should learn to perform well on the top lines in the AHL before he could earn a spot in the NHL. How is he doing ? I see him on what looks like an energy/enforcer line in late February. Is he behind what we'd expect of him in terms of development ?

Makar may well be the best player in the league, but this OT sequence was terrible.

Ouch

This is why Olympics are every 4 years. To give us time to calm down from these games.

At first, I thought Horvat would be 13th or scratch, but he played superbly well since the beginning of the tournament and deserves the promotion. He really seized his chance after Point and Cirelli went down.

Agreed. All goalies in the PWHL look as steady as prime Carey Price.