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So in less than 24 hours, the Rangers have unloaded Kovalev, Nedved, Markkanen, and Leetch. I would have to think that Lindros, Rucinsky, and Poti are the others on the chopping block. Holik's salary makes him completely untradeable.

Just listening to Team990 and they said a deal is near between the NYR and Leafs for Leetch. A prospect and 2 picks heading to the Rangers. This is almost as wild as the Caps sell off.

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story.asp?ID=74...788&hubName=nhl

Hmm, other than Markov, Kovalev has at least a common interest with Juneau, both are pilots/aeronautics enthusiasts.

I was very excited to see Kovalev play tonight. What sucks anyway is that I'll be at the Avs games on Friday night, so I won't be able to see his first game. Sigh.

According to RDS, he won't be playing.

I guess the lines need to be modified now, with Kovalev in the lineup.

Wow, I'm stunned that the Habs picked up Kovalev. To add a player like him without giving a player on the roster is pretty cool. I'm happy with this acquisition. Seems like it came from left field though, no rumours prior to the actual event. Woohoo.

I agree with the above. I kept having to flip between the Avs/CBJ game just to stay awake. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwn. At least the Habs came away with the "W".

So, someone can't mature in the 10 years since he played in jrs? It's still a crap argument in my opinion, one I will never buy into. Everyone can say what they want, but if a guy like Arnott could be had, I highly doubt a deal would be axed someone said they didn't like him. I work with some people that I don't particularly care for, but I don't walk around calling them cancers to the company. Primarily, people call someone a "cancer" when they don't like them personally. Yaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn. I've argued against this point so many times that it's pretty much pointless for me to continue. Armchair GMs will continue to say this as they wallow in their own blissfull ignorance.

Once again, the "someone is cancer" shoot down. How the hell does anyone ever know who a locker room cancer is? That's always been one of the stupidest arguments I've ever read against trading for a player.

Datsyuk and Lang down the middle now for the Wings. I wonder what moves some of the other Western Conference teams will make now.

A definitely agree. Dykhuis takes a half-assed wave at the puck, taps it to Alfie, and the rest is history. Quintal may have screened, but Theo was also leaning to his left a bit, leaving the short side open.

First Francis earlier in the day, now Quenville is out in St Louis.

Well, RDS says Perreault is taking Bulis' spot with Koivu and Zednik. Argh. http://rds.ca/cgi-bin/nouvelles?site=rdw&a...on&sport=#96743

So Bulis is playing tonight, I take it?

Thank you. Of course coaches will always downplay it to the media as well: "Oh, I've always had scuffles in practice", etc. I said it before, during the course of the regular season, this team is supposed to be a single unit. Fighting amongst themselves is counterproductive to what they are trying to accomplish. I've had arguments before with other players during practice, but I've never dropped the gloves with any of them.

Yup, the Habs have lost 3 games in a row, time to dump Julien. Then next week, the Habs win three in a row, and they're off to the Cup finals and Julien gets the Adams. Some fans of this team sure are a fickle lot.

What the Caps need and what they do are two completely different things. I don't want Witt, but as far as the Caps go, they are in salaray purge mode. Why do you think they traded Jagr, and are looking to move Gonchar, Lang, Bondra, etc? It isn't because they don't need those players, it's because they need to dump salaray. I mean c'mon, the Caps let Ken Klee get away for nothing last year because they thought he would be too expensive for them.

That was a horrible third period. This looked like the 3rd period Habs from last year. The 2nd wasn't much better, either, IMO.

I agree with Habs77 on this one. For a while, I've wished that goalies weren't allowed to play the puck for the exact same reason: They aren't fair game when they leave the crease. They end up playing like a defenseman, yet no opposing players are allowed to touch them at all without getting a penalty. People are boo-hooing about how this will hurt Turco and Brodeur. Good. Goalies need to play their position. They aren't defenseman.

I didn't enjoy tonight's game. The more I watched it, the moer I was annoyed with all the little things hapening (I know they happen in every game). All of the picks, the holding, the hooking, it just looked like crap. The whistle on the first goal, the goofy bounce on the second. One pt the Florida announcers made: The Habs have the toughest remaining schedule of any NHL team. Winning percentage of teams the rest of the way: .561.

I don't know what was honestly offered, but from the printed rumours, SJ had interest in Zednik, Hainsey, and Bulis.

Ryder looks bored as hell playing out there. I know it's a Stars game, but where's anything resembling an effort?

I agree that almost all teams in professional sports have some level of cliques amongst them. But fighting in practice, however intense it may be, is not acceptable during the regular season, and it isn't a common occurence. Whatever the cause was, or anything underlying, nothing good comes out of teammates fighting. Julien needs to take a stand quickly on this one and let em all know who's in charge. It's still something I think that will pass by and barely be a blip on the radar soon enough.