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Good to see DD get a break, Pacioretty gift wrapped one for him earlier.

Emelin and Murray have tossed a couple nice hits.

Slick play by Murray, so nimble

Do you know if Ellis is improved this year or still 3rd pairing at best? Pateryn with 3 of 10 shots, must still be best performing d-man on team?

Andrighetto & Holland been day to day for a awhile now, be nice to see them back soon.

OK, DD is untradable, how bout trading "something" for Ott, would you think that he might be a good pick-up for Habs? White would fit their rebuild (not that I want to see White traded but) and would need something else so Ott's salary would fit wouldn't you? He is a 31 year old gritty shit-disturbing vet and a maritimer, that likely wants out of Buffalo and will be gone by deadline to someone, I would assume.

You speak of stuff i know nothing about, nor have noticed. And anything is better than Sportsnet gongshow crew, so like i said the bar is quite low and most of TSN crew i dont mind at all (Steve Simmins guy seems like a twit, but cant think of others that bug me). Duthy, Pang, Ward and bunch i find humerous at times and entertaining at least.

Keep it up and someone else will have to start doing them!

Not very informative? Because Ward (and Bruins GM) got a surprise at last moment? McKenzie is still go to guy and quite respected opinion, or seemingly anyways. So I disagree, but media sets a pretty low bar overall (e.g. Cherry, Milbury, McQuire, Maclean, Healy, John Garrett etc etc)

LeBrun? Who? Most of TSN hockey crew, with idiot McGuire gone, I find are pretty sane and entertaining. Gord Miller-Mike Johnson-Ray F etc do games very well.

Since playing Sabres today, would Steve Ott be a good pick up. I think he is a good agitator type and could be just a rental, not sure if salary is simply too high for a 3rd/4th line centre though? Maybe trade DD and White to Sabres for him?

So can chalk up a late round swing and miss @154th for Timmins.

No I didn't say ideal, just that if "fanatics" are willing to pony up the $, games are still "available" somewhere on the dial, it wont be worst case. But less competition is never a good thing for public.

The Sabres suck and as long as Habs play their game and be disciplined, they should win easily. 5-19 is a very bad record

He averages 45points/season, gets the odd big hit, is a bit shakey defensively but good all-round, so $6 isn't crazy, but some team may pay $7 for him. He would be almost a #1 d-man on some weak teams (like his hometown Edmonton).

If blacked out and totally unavailable that would be crappy deal, but I also heard that will not be the case and like normally blacked out regional Sportsnet games, if you get centreice package or pay for extra cannel(s) and pay $, the games are not "blacked out". Maybe sportsnet will have Ottawa and Montreal games on their "East" channel as they do for Oil/Flames on their "West" one?

For past few years for here in BC, RDS has been extra $4/month and TVA sports was $2/month last year, so if that dosnt change wont be a big deal. Just too bad CBC hadnt drawn the short straw, i simply cant stand idiot Healy-Cherry and crew and refuse to watch any games or pre-game crap done by them. I have avoided Cherry for years and dont miss his foolishness one bit.

And the 40 years before the lock-out also they managed to avoid being "elite", which is quite a feat of management that few sports teams can match, cept maybe Chicago Cubs, Detroit Lions, LA Clippers.

Hopefully Bob McKenzie for clown quintet of Doug Maclean, (and CBC toss in) Cherry, Healy, Stock, Milbury, but will never happen, TSN isn't that braindead. How bout Maclean for Maggie the monkey?

Why is it that bad a matchup? In any regular season game it is always a toss up between Leafs & Habs. But in a series with these 2 rosters, Habs seem to have better team wouldn't you say?

With Yemelin back and goalies playing as they are, you are correct and team wouldn't even notice a rookie on 3rd pairing. Pateryn is much stronger and defensively sound than Beaulieu and likely stronger than Tinordi and better all-round than the ordinary AHL play Tinordi is showing at present. But, give the big guy another 20-30 games in Hamilton and his game may really improve (and get his confidence back?). And give him another year in weight room and summer work on his skating and he should be ready for prime time. But no, of course, I don't think Pateryn has the upside of either 1st rounder, but am quite curious to see how he would do given a few game stretch. But no big rush for any of the three.

Sure, GMs are always looking to improve team and wouldn't be doing his job if he wasn't testing the waters. Last year it was said, he had more inquiries on Eller and Bourque than the rest (as some others were never gonna be traded or virtually untouchable and demand-return for rest not there)

Pateryn still seems like the "most NHL ready", but none of the three would be better options over the two vets on the 3rd pairing, come playoff time. But we will surely see one or two of them as injury call-ups over the next several months and see how they look. Same up front, Habs simply do not have excess quality forwards to ship out for picks/prospects and I doubt any will be traded before a key injury happens.

Agree, but other GMs will look at injury history and not be keen on giving up anything worthwhile for him, so he is more valuable for Habs to simply keep for playoff depth.

And some will say that best time to trade is when you are doing well and not when trading out of desperation, which is sort of along the line of a Pacioretty-for-Kane based trade deal. Simply a hockey deal (highly contentious/debatable swap but). But, I think most would say that Habs will not be sellers, unless things go way off the rails. And Bergevin has contended that he does not want to mortgage the future for short term success, so is another reason why I don't see any big trades being done before deadline.