Commandant

Habs pick will be 32.... the Devils are almost guaranteed to forfeit their first rounder now. Thats what I meant by, if you want him, take him at 32. I don't think he'll be around for Nashville's pick. Tim Bozon, one of my personal favorites. http://lastwordonsports.com/2012/05/10/nhl-draft-prospect-profile-35-tim-bozon/

I think if you want thrower, you need to grab him at 32. Unless we see massive slippage of all the defencemen.

Some people are better equipped to deal with things and calm down the circus than others. (See Gainey's regime vs Gauthier's regime) One of the aspects that helps someone do this is experience in the role. Sure its not the be all and end all because Gauthier was experienced and he sucked at it. But in general experience helps and two Rookies in their job are gonna have a tough time. The other issue I have is we all know Roy is a bit of an ego-maniac. When I proposed Roy for Coach, I always did so having an experienced GM and a man that Patrick respected. If you have Bergevin with no known relationship between him and Roy, I foresee a power struggle could occur between the two of them. The dominant leader is exactly the issue. How is he gonna work with Bergevin as his boss?

The problem with a Rookie Coach and a Rookie GM is that if shit hits the fan, in a city like Montreal, things can spiral out of control and become a circus very quickly. If you bring in Roy, you better bring in damn good assistants.

Dalton Thrower http://lastwordonsports.com/2012/05/09/nhl-draft-prospect-profile-34-dalton-thrower/

Rookie GM and Rookie Coach scares me.

Kings Leafs and Blues are all equal. Leafs won in 66-67, those two teams joined the league in 67-68.

Well thats just it, Burke wants to rant and rave in front of some cameras. Never found a Camera he didn't like.

With Gillis geting the extension in Vancouver, Vigneault is likely staying put. So we are probably on to other candidates now.

The advantage it might give is knowing we can trade down and get more assets and still get the player we want if we are picking after the leafs.

Yup. Not to mention we lost 3 coaches and an assistant GM to Tampa, and we never whined about not getting any compensation for them. Also remember the word is Dudley has been working the Leafs draft board for 2 months now... that means his knowledge is a lot more extensive than just the first round pick, he'll know most of the Leafs entire list and who they are looking for in every round.

Button thinks its Peter Forsberg.

Stefan Matteau http://lastwordonsports.com/2012/05/08/nhl-draft-prospect-profile-33-stefan-matteau/

London wins game 3 and goes up 2-1 in the series.

http://insidesmashville.com/2012/05/01/weber-suter-respond-to-benching-of-teammates/

You can't even talk contract with a player unless he's reached the relevant date... July 1st of his last year (for guys on long term deals)... January 1st for guys on one year deals. Now I'm sure this rule gets bent and some of it does go on, but technically Pittsburgh shouldn't be talking contract with him yet either. You have no guarantees here is the issue. Even if Staal is say looking for 6.5 million from Pittsburgh, his agent could up that number drastically as soon as he's traded and there isn't much you can do about it. As for the Re-Entry waivers, you can't put that in a trade, but I guess you can make it a sort of gentleman's agreement outside the trade. But if Pittsburgh doesn't claim him, you've got nothing to go back on. Both parts are a lot of risk.

For anyone who hated Martin's defensive style and didn't think it was exciting enough. You'll loathe Vincent.

Corey Perry and Ryan Getzlaf got into an incident in a Helsinki night club. There was an argument and Getzlaf was drunk at 3am and told the locals "I am the captain of the Anaheim Ducks, I'll knock all of you out in 3 minutes."

Problem with the Staal deal. It has to be made at the draft in June. Per the CBA, you can't even talk contract extension with him or his agent before July 1st, so Pittsburgh wouldn't be able to even allow the Habs to talk to him about the extension first. You'd be trading for him, blind, with no idea if he'd re-sign. As for adding Gomez... the only reason Pittsburgh trades one of the three centres is to clear cap space, why would they take Gomez back, actually increasing the cap hit, not decreasing it?

Colton Sissons, a rugged forward and the captain of the Kelowna Rockets. http://lastwordonsports.com/2012/05/07/nhl-draft-prospect-32-colton-sissons/

I will laugh for a week, maybe longer.

Of course. Think how their teammates feel. These are guys who have given blood, sweat and tears for each other, all year since September. And these two guys come in, one at the deadline, and one even later than that, and how do they act? Do they integrate into team culture, put their own bodies on the line, and start working their asses off like Hal Gill? No, they go out drinking past 4am just 13 hours before a playoff game. If I was Weber, Suter, Fischer, Legwand etc... I'd say ###### these guys too.

They lost game 1 and game 2 with both those guys in the lineup. The two players combined had 1 shot on net, in two games. Why do we assume they would have won game 4 if they dressed them?

Absolutely. I'm sure its well within the Leafs rights to ask he starts after the draft. Just like the Sens did with Chiarelli in Boston.

Dudley was also the man who promoted Timmins to head scout in Ottawa, so this is great news for him.