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Please, please let his nickname be "EDITTED".

I concur, I think he's staying in Detroit. I wanted him, I really did, despite the fact that a rebuilding team needs a rebuilding coach (who will likely be fired in two to three years) not a top flight Cup winner. Perhaps then the best choice is the Grand Rapids coach who just may survive the...

I wish it was Healy

That may be, but it appears that US Hockey doesn't give a Faulk.

I don't care much whether the team was built for the 2nd last coach who just happens to be "Coach of the Year" material based on what followed (just kidding, well a bit). The question I would pose is: do we jump at Todd McL or do we wait to see if Babcock will take it? If it is Babs then I...

On that last point, you may not be sure but that is a good enough reason for me ;)

Could not agree more. We simply have to get more 1st and (at least one) 2nd round picks this year.

There isn't a trade that the Oilers would accept. Period. There is just too much downside and not enough upside to trading McDavid. No matter who Edmonton may be offered, there is little chance that those players would propel the Oilers to a Cup final let alone a Cup. McDavid, on the other...

As talented as Kessel is, he is not now, nor has he ever been, a cornerstone player for a successful team. I said it when the trade was made and it is still true: getting Kessel was like getting a platinum hood ornament for a Yugo. If anything, I have sympathy for Kessel inasmuch as he is...

The Stanley Cup Layoffs at long last.

Exactly, clean out the roster next.

I have no problems with that scenario, after all t has been a losing environment for a while. The difference now is that this is planned rebuild. The message from these mass firings is that someone besides the fans is fed up with the losing, the lack of strategic thinking and the utter lack of...

I would say that whether or not Shanahan makers the draft decision, the selection the Leafs make will indeed be on him. The honeymoon is over for Mr. Shanahan. The training wheels are off and he will be called to account from here on in for the development of this team and its results.

I sincerely doubt that last observation. First of all, JFJ was unparalleled as a failure even considering the pantheon of failed Leaf GMs. Beyond that, Hunter comes with some experience in junior talent evaluation and was brought in for that specific purpose, not necessary to be Nonis'...

Very, very much so.

I must confess that I concur with your statement. Having said that the other day I was reading an article that said the most overrated and hence unreliable quality is the size of a player.  I have no idea if that is correct or even if there is any data to support the supposition, however it...

Exactly, we don't need any kind of a goalie, good, bad or indifferent for the next two seasons and after all, if Bernier was the second coming of Jacques Plante, he would have made more of a difference this season and he would be burned out beyond salvation in another year or two with this crew...

I think you are now in the clear....

Horachek's record speaks for itself and it makes Randy carlyle look like the scone coming of Scotty Bowman. He'll never get a single vote but the comparison clearly shows that Carlyle must be the coach of the year. As for Horachek, I don't blame him for this, at least not all of it and...