Commandant

Where is the goalie interference? Come on.

Francois Gagnon says 2 weeks for Cammalleri.

Diaz looks like a legit NHL dman. Thank the Lord, because we need him to be one. Edit: Emelin too.

LOVE ME SOME PLEKY!

Best goalie in the NHL

And that is why Erik Cole is not a PP player.

Habs official twitter says both Cammy and Spacek out for the game.... but not serious injuries.

Hopefully its not deep.

So Cursed!!!!! Cammy hurt bad.

Weber is playing ES on D. Spacek is definitely hurt.

Gotta bury that gionta.

Power play

THERE IS OUR EARLY GOAL ON THE COUNTER ATTACK CAMMALLERI

Gotta survive early. Need Carey to stop them at the start of the game. An early goal for us, would be huge... But we need to silence this crowd.

The move will probably be as simple as ltir betts.

Renaud Lavoie

Do you think it was 1 performance that made the Canucks take a veteran D out of the Stanley Cup finals and make him a healthy scratch, or was it a season's worth of poor performances? Heck he had a bad year his last year in Florida and that led to him being available for trade as well. He's had 2 straight seasons where he has been below the level of a top 4 defenceman. The Canucks are lucky to have Edler, Salo, Hamhuis, Bieksa as legit top 4 Dmen, because Ballard hasn't been that. 20 games takes us to the end of november.... I think thats a worst case scenario, considering he's already skating. 1 year off the ice for a second straight tear in his knee, sounds about right, (on the long side of the 9-12 month plan).

Apparently the results have been sent to NHL management who has to make a ruling on this. Its expected they will send him back to Philly though.

How is that woeful diligence on the part of the Habs? How were they supposed to do a physical of the guy before acquiring him? They did the physical and he failed so they sent him back. This is the way these things are supposed to work. If its bad due diligence, explain how the due diligence is supposed to be performed in this situation?

A few points.... 1) Alex Henry is not an NHL defenceman... not even close. 2) Keith Ballard was so good last year that the Canucks made him a healthy scratch in the Stanley Cup finals and played a raw rookie with less than 5 regular season games in Chris Tanev instead. He has been an unmitigated disaster for them. 3) PK Subban has grown so much in a year. Yes, he's young, but saying he'd be at best a 3rd Defenceman on a top tier team is a stretch. He'd be second on Boston. For 2nd, he'd be right up there with anyone on Pittsburgh or Washington. He'd be the 2nd D on Tampa, heck he might be first on Tampa since Brewer brings 0 offence. Are those not the teams picked by most "experts" to win the Eastern Conference? He's fine being our number 2 defenceman, which is what he'll be as soon as Markov returns.... and realistically 20 games missed is a large estimate for Markov right now considering that would take us to late november. Losing Campoli hurts, no doubt about that. But I don't think this team is in as bad a shape as some make it out to be.

2 goals for Brendan Gallagher tonight (4goals in 3 games).... but Vancouver loses to Medicine Hat 5-4 in a shootout.

1a for Kristo 1a for MacMillan but UND loses to Boston College, 6-2 in the final of the IceBreaker Tournament.

My bet would be Willsie, since Willsie played C for the Habs in preseason games, and Trotter was always a winger in preseason. Hehas been almost exclusively a LW since he left the University of Denver. He was at LW for almost all of his 2.5 years in Hamilton, though I don't know what he was doing in the AHL last year. Maybe we'll get some clarification though.

According to Derek Wills on twitter Lines were Trotter-Willsie -Palushaj (still unclear who is center of this line), Conboy-DeSimone-Avtsin Lefebvre-Dumont-Blunden Berger-Masse-Schultz Looks like they are going for the same top 9 approach that the Habs are going for. I hope Berger can move up as time passes, really liked him in training camp... he seems like he'll be useful, but needs development.

Beaulieu with a couple assists tonight.