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He is also playing better at Centre than he's ever played at wing... and with Wing being the open position i don't know why they'd want to mess with that.

Sven scores two goals, moves into third in team scoring, and gets the first call-up. http://lastwordonsports.com/2015/11/20/canadiens-recall-sven-andrighetto-from-ahl/

Which is why Gallagher should never have been taken off of it. Keep the two lines that are going... going...

He gets paid more to be the #1 guy on baseball for ESPN and #3 on the their College Basketball than Sportsnet could afford for him. Good for Dan though, glad he has that big success.

Our AHL team is scoring a ton, and we have like 4 guys in the top 10 in AHL scoring... there are guys there who should get a chance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemivUKb4f4p

He does not have to clear waivers to come up. Only to go back and thats only if he plays 10 games or spends 30 days on the roster. Issue is we have 23 on the roster... and you need to clear a space for him. Emelin or mitchell going on ir would clear the space

There is a very good chance that Holloway isn't the answer. But guess what, you have 9 games and 29 days to find out. As long as he doesn't play a 10th game or be on the roster for 30 days, he will not need waivers. So give him a shot... at least exhaust the possibilities.

Yesterday a Devils beat writer said he heard rumors of an Eric Gelinas for Jarred Tinordi swap.

I don't know about that. He makes less money in the AHL than he did in Europe and he's still relatively young. I think he wants an NHL chance (who in his situation wouldn't)....

He was expected to make the Kings the summer he left for Europe. Did nothing but score there including leading the SHL in scoring (not an easy feat). We want to talk about guys who didn't get a chance... he got all of one preseason game where he played 9 minutes on the fourth line and then was sent to the AHL. Since being in the AHL all he's done is compete for the league lead in points.....

Tonight, the Mighty Montreal Canadiens travel to Brooklyn, for their first game in the Barclays Centre, and the first of a home and home series with the New York Islanders. For the first time in 10 games, the Habs will have the reigning and defending Hart and Vezina Trophy winner back between the pipes as Carey Price returns after a 9 game layoff. http://lastwordonsports.com/2015/11/19/carey-price-returns-friday-against-the-islanders/ Expected lineups below. Pacioretty - Plekanec - Gallagher Fleischmann - Desharnais - Weise Eller - Galchenyuk - Semin* Byron - Flynn - Smith-Pelly Markov - Subban Beaulieu - Petry Gilbert - Pateryn Price Condon vs Nelson - Tavares - Okposo Lee - Nielsen - Bailey Kulemin - Grabovski - Bernier Martin - Cizikas - Clutterbuck Hamonic - De Haan Leddy - Boychuk Strait - Zidlicky The Ghost of Rick Dipietro Halak Greiss

An option I would try Bud Holloway.

The intent is to say the experiment should be over, clearly it has failed. He has been given every opportunity to succeed, and its not working. Yeah Berkshire and others will point out a great corsi (which is fine, I like advanced stats too) but digging deeper, hes basically only getting shooting attempts from bad areas only despite being given tons of advantages in terms of opponents and zone starts. Time to try someone else. Has nothing to do with the money... the money is miniscule and if he's waived 95% of it comes off the cap anyways. The issue is he's taking a spot where others could be tried.

Semin has been given (on a per minute basis) The easiest zone starts on the entire team The easiest quality of opponents on the entire team Despite this He is 11th on the team in forwards in Quality scoring chances per minute played He is 1st on the team in forwards in shots from outside the quality scoring chance zone per minute played. He's shooting the puck like a ing madman, but from outside of anywhere that is considered dangerous.

Semin has been given (on a per minute basis) The easiest zone starts on the entire team The easiest quality of opponents on the entire team Despite this He is 11th on the team in forwards in Quality scoring chances per minute played He is 1st on the team in forwards in shots from outside the quality scoring chance zone per minute played. He's shooting the puck like a ing madman, but from outside of anywhere that is considered dangerous.

Lehkonen 1g 1a -- goal was the OT winner... today.

When it out draws regular season games in the same slot... its not just because it's on tv.

False.... some of those guys are speedsters, but certainly not all of them. Gallagher is not a speedster... he's a good skater, but he's nowhere close to the fastest guy on our team and not that much faster than Davey. Cammalleri is not a speedster Saku Koivu did quite well in the playoffs, and he was not a speedster Mikael Granlund is not a speedster and he's produced in his two playoff years in Minnesota. there are other examples...

I agree its boring, and I haven't watched in a long time, but the NHL will never drop one of their biggest corporate smoozing, and money generating events of the year. It gets decent ratings (better than regular season hockey) in the US too, so they care.

The problem with that is the great disparity in ice time between the Pleks line and every other line... I don't want Semin playing 4 minutes a game more than Gallagher.

Its crazy... no one can attack Therrien on his record anymore, on his system anymore, so now its all about the fact that he failed to get the $1.1 million gamble to work. Somehow the fact that Semin sucks has become the coaches fault and another reason to sarcastically throw around "The Genius". Multiple coaches in Washington and Carolina failed with Semin... maybe its not a Therrien problem... maybe, just maybe, its a Semin problem. The guy might actually be uncoachable.

Those are scalper ticket prices, which are selling below face value, because both teams absolutely suck and have already been eliminated from the playoffs..... The team got far more for those tickets when they sold them to the scalpers back before the season began.

Quantity does not equal quality. Columbus wouldnt take that imo

Hes headed to Switzerland