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No cap effect on a conditioning stint, Pouliot counts against the cap while in Hamilton.

Subban had an interesting stretch in that period, PP needs to pop one sooner than later.

He's expected to play Thursday with the Habs, not a good sign if he's still not ready to go.

I would assume this will be his first (and possibly only) game with the team.

50-Contract Situation for 2025-26: Scorecard Total committed contracts: 32 - Potential junior-bound slide rule players: 0 + Restricted free agents: 9 = Revised total (max 50): 41 Legend: Black - under contract, Red - UFA, Blue - RFA, Purple - Needs to be signed for next season or rights lost. SR - Slide Rule, NQC - Non-Qualification Candidate * - excluding players already signed overseas Forwards: Josh Anderson Owen Beck Cole Caufield Lucas Condotta Kirby Dach Jared Davidson Ivan Demidov Jake Evans Brendan Gallagher Oliver Kapanen Riley Kidney Patrik Laine Filip Mesar Alex Newhook Vinzenz Rohrer Joshua Roy Juraj Slafkovsky Nick Suzuki Tyler Thorpe Luke Tuch Florian Xhekaj Sean Farrell Rafael Harvey-Pinard NQC Emil Heineman Xavier Simoneau NQC Joel Armia Alex Barre-Boulet Christian Dvorak Michael Pezzetta Defence: Alexandre Carrier Adam Engstrom Kaiden Guhle Lane Hutson Michael Matheson Logan Mailloux David Reinbacher Arber Xhekaj Noel Hoefenmayer NQC Jayden Struble William Trudeau Goalies: Jacob Fowler Samuel Montembeault Carey Price Jakub Dobes Cayden Primeau NQC

Weber skated today and then was sent back to Hamilton, means Mara should be ready soon.

Projected Montreal (15-14-2) Lineup: Cammalleri - Plekanec - A. Kostitsyn S. Kostitsyn - Gomez - Lapierre Pacioretty - Metropolit - Moen D'Agostini - Pyatt - Laraque Gill - Gorges Hamrlik - Spacek/Weber Bergeron - O'Byrne Price (confirmed starter) Spacek may or may not able to play... Projected Pittsburgh (20-10-1) Lineup: Rupp - Crosby - Guerin Dupuis - Malkin - Fedotenko Cooke - Staal - Kennedy Adams - Talbot - Godard Gonchar - Orpik Letang - Eaton Skoula - McKee Fleury (unconfirmed starter) Puck drop is at 7:00 tonight. TV: RDS, NHL-N (US) Radio: CJAD, CKAC

Per RDS, Weber gets the recall after White was sent down earlier today.

I'm looking forward to seeing this game on tape...the last 2 periods at least.

A little early, but I'm gone all day tomorrow so I'm posting it now... <B>Projected Montreal (14-14-2) Lineup: Cammalleri - Plekanec - A. Kostitsyn S. Kostitsyn - Gomez - Lapierre Pacioretty - Metropolit - Moen White - Pyatt - Laraque O'Byrne - Gorges Bergeron - Gill Hamrlik - Spacek Halak Not sure of the severity of Mara's injury. <B>Projected Ottawa (14-10-4) Lineup: Michalek - Spezza - Shannon Kovalev - Fisher - Alfredsson Ruutu - Kelly - Cheechoo Regin - Winchester - Foligno Phillips - Volchenkov Kuba - Karlsson Carkner - Campoli Elliott Lines are roughly from their last game, best I could find on short notice. Puck drop is at 7:30 tonight. TV: RDS, SNET-E Radio: CJAD, CKAC To the mods, feel free to edit the lines as accurate info comes in; I will not be around at all tomorrow.

I put that thing together in 30 seconds...and evidently it showed. For the record, this is Laviolette's 2nd game, the Washington debacle was his debut.

Pic borrowed from our HW Preview since I'm too lazy to look one up myself... Projected Montreal (13-14-2) Lineup: Cammalleri - Plekanec - A. Kostitsyn S. Kostitsyn - Gomez - D'Agostini Pacioretty - Metropolit - Moen Bergeron - Lapierre - Laraque O'Byrne - Gorges Mara - Gill Hamrlik - Spacek Price (confirmed starter) Benoit Pouliot is questionable for the game. Projected Philadelphia (13-12-1) Lineup: Hartnell - Richards - Giroux van Riemsdyk - Carter - Briere Laperriere - Pyorala - Asham Nodl - Kalinski - Cote Carle - Pronger Tollefsen - Coburn Parent - Bartulis Boucher (confirmed starter) Puck drop is at 7:30 tonight. TV: RDS, TCN-PH (US) Radio: CJAD, CKAC

They never bothered to mention those 2...for the record, Fortier isn't a Bulldog, he's a Hab technically.

He has 3 years left on his deal; if they were trying to move him, that'd be the biggest reason I'd presume. That being said, he's actually producing right now (on pace for 70 points), it's hard to envision the Panthers wanting to move him at this very time.

Quick correction - salary of $3.5 M, cap hit of $4 M - the way the Habs are cap-wise, that $500k difference is huge.

I'm still waiting on confirmation on how to officially count Stewart's situation so I can't really run the numbers at the moment. However, the Habs were what, less than 1 million under the cap when the season started and that was with those 2 (Stewart, Chipchura) both on the roster with more expensive players in the minors. Couple that with all the LTIR stuff and I'm not sure it would. Can't say with certainty though, won't be able to do any real capology stuff until the middle of next week though.

You'd have to think that one of these days, someone in management will remember there's such a thing called a salary cap - turfing their 2 cheapest players in Chipchura/Stewart do have negative elements to them. As D'Agostini's the cheapest left, I like his chances of staying.

When everyone's healthy, it seems almost a given - activate Gionta and Markov off IR, 2 have to go (I'm assuming White's demotion was making room for Pouliot) - Pyatt will be one, but will they let Bergeron go? I suspect not. Of course, there's bound to be another (or 4) injuries by the time that ever happens...

Another giveaway costs the Dogs the game, Stalberg with his 2nd of the game, Marlies win 6-5 in OT.

Apparently it was a softie...I wouldn't put it past that trio. For Neilson, it was his first goal of the year, Stewart his first point (in 7 games this season), Henry only got his first point yesterday. (And this was his 2nd assist of the game...he's on a roll!) Off to overtime now...

And we're tied again, Russell makes it 5-5! Maxwell, Carle with the assists.

Marlies once again take the lead (4th time), another giveaway proves costly, former Hab prospect Andre Deveaux with the goal.

Eric Neilson scores his first as a Bulldog...I think I'm going to faint. Good thing the Marlies have an ECHL'er in net (and no backup to go to apparently). 4-4 game! Neilson (Henry, Stewart)...not exactly a trio you'd expect to see together on a goal.

End of 1, 2-0 Toronto. Injuries for Hamilton (in case anyone's wondering how bad the infirmary is down there): Maxime Lacroix (DTD) Mathieu Darche (7-10 days) Shawn Belle (DTD) Mikael Johansson (who knows with him...) I think there's 1 or 2 more (well, Busto is one but he'll never play anyways), missed them on the broadcast. If anyone wants to vote for the Dogs for the All-Star Game, go to http://theahl.com/forms/ahl-all-star-ballot-f1.

Ouch, Stalberg scores a shorty, 2-0 bad guys. AHL scoresheet finally notes the first goal, 15 minutes after it actually goes in.