Lovett's Magnatones

Because given Julien (Seguin, Wheeler, Kessel) and Bergevin's history (Subban) he's got one foot out the door.

Uh-oh.

Martinsen would be a good pick to barrel into Lundqvist.

Agreed. A coach and GM that are smitten with Phillip Danault aren't looking for guys like Galchenyuk (entertaining players) to gum up the works.

I don't see it lasting more than two games, but Galchenyuk being bumped to the fourth line for a guy with one point in 17 games is the first obvious mistake of the Julien Era. This reminds me of when Julien bumped Tyler Seguin to the 3rd line for Jagr in 2013...and Jagr didn't have a single goal in 22 playoff games. Then Seguin got dealt. People take the Rangers lightly. Besides an aging Lundqvist, they don't have any real stars. But they also have above average everything. Imo, their logo should be a B+. Great forward corp and coaching, good enough D, and if Lundqvist gets hot the Habs might be in for a surprise. I think the Habs take it in 6.

Two teams in different places-one with the season on the line, another looking to the next. I'm not surprised at the first. Tampa always plays the Habs well. In the old days, someone would try to get in a fight to get the team riled up. We'll see what happens next period.

My father took me to the Forum the year before it closed, and it's one of my favorite memories.

And it brings back the old MoLG contention that Galchenyuk at center exposes their LW depth.

I would rather they just kept him for the last year of his deal than get tricky like they did with Briere. They could trade him for another pumpkin, or carry dead weight for a couple of years. They have two bad contracts, and only for one more year. I don't see much currency in shifting that 4 million into 2 or taking on a guy with 2 or 3 years left. If he's got 30-50 games left of mediocre hockey, they should just let him sit in the press box. They like having 8 dmen as is.

Oh yeah. This is the first chink in the armor for the Julien regime.

I bet Emelin is hurt. There's bad, and then there's 30/44 SA bad. That's what Douglas Murray would get on hard drugs.

At least we signed Simon Bourque.

Lehkonen Byron Danault Gallagher Mitchell 5 of 12 forwards bring nothing.

Nobody goes after Fisher. Book the tee times!!!

The Habs are about as big a mirage as the US stock market. #pe-evaluations

I'm sorry to say that I can't tell the difference between Gallagher and Mitchell/Flynn/Byron these days.

Everybody loses, and when we see what Shea looks like in two months, Bergevin will lose his job.

Hey, I'll take it. It's better than the majority of players that pretend to act like Canadian wheat farmers in front of the camera.

Soul of the team got traded last June. Nobody's known whom this team exactly is since.

Binky Bergevin is above average at best. He came into the job with a Trumpian flourish of press conferences, front office expansion, and made a lot of popular but no brainer decisions like buying out Gomez and then Kaberle the next year. After five years it appears his best days are behind him. Again, Weber looks like shit 60 games into a billion year contract and they've traded one set of problems for another. But this is really typical of most GMs. It's easy to fix mistakes, but only one GM builds a Cup winning team per year. I don't mind the deadline, this is what I think of his entire body of work.

I think after five years, it's time for a lot of Habs fans to get their head out of Bergevin's ass.

The Panthers were in first place in 2010-2011 the year before they were a lottery team.

Nobody's mentioned the defense yet. One of their problems is a lack of a puck moving D on their the first pairing. They're either going to use Emelin and get smoker by the speed, or Markov and get smoked by fatigue. This isn't good. The three games they have vs Ottawa this month are going to be very telling.

There was nothing. There's a good chance Colorado wanted Sergachev, N8, Hudon, and a 1st for Duchene. At the draft, this price will come down at least one piece. This happened with Evander Kane a couple of years ago, and Ryan O'Reilly,

I'm not happy, but I don't think (for once) that they had the pieces or the players available to really improve things for themselves. The season's gone off the rails, and is just getting back. I don't think it's really the year to go all in or if they can even get to that point again. 2014-15 was the year.