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Tapped into a grievance, for sure. The GOP knows jobs in a lot of these industries are never coming back in any significant way, but, as long as they never acknowledge it publicly and say they’ll fight for them (even though they never really do), they get the votes. That’s what the current GOP...

With the way the cap is going up, we probably need to revise what we think of as a $9M defender. It's ultimately going to be closer to what we think of as a $6M-$7M guy, which is probably right around where he was in Arizona when healthy.

Ottawa was strangely desperate to get rid of him. It's not like he had an awful season in Ottawa. He was largely victimized by their bad goaltending and overall inconsistent play.

Even if he doesn’t, with his defence, if he can produce anywhere above league average, it’s a good deal.

Dumb penalty.

Completely abandoned his side of the ice to try an unnecessarily aggressive play. He plays that smarter and that’s a nothing play.

You mean the exception that will be reason every high end player will be absolutely demanding full trade protection moving forward?

The problem is that the CPC as a whole don’t seem to want to move much towards the middle, largely out of fear of losing their base. They’d gain a lot more votes than they’d lose, but those votes are nowhere near as vocal as those that might abandon them of the PPC.

That’s really splitting hairs, to be honest. If a player doesn’t want to be traded, it’s pretty easy for them to block the teams that they know have the assets and the need to get a trade done. They still basically control their own fate. Modified clauses most give teams the illusion of freedom.

You're mistaken about some of them (though, in some cases, it was added as part of an extension - it's basically the only thing that can be retroactively introduced into a contract that way) and basically all of them had some form of trade protection. It's really just the cost of doing business...

A couple seasons ago, it definitely felt like they were being carried by Shesterkin, and maybe the success with him gave them a bit of a boost since. That can't last forever, though, and, outside of Panarin and Miller, they're definitely lacking in guys that are still truly high-end forwards.

Maybe some loudmouths on radio call-in shows, morons on Twitter, or haters on other message boards.

Who invited the Habs fan?

Maybe they should go back to being the St Pats.

Easier said than done, especially with the Leafs’ flat footed blue line.

Agreed. It's one thing to have their role on the PK lessened to help maximize their impact, but, when they're good at it, no sense taking them off. Having that extra threat of a potential SH goal can help put a little extra pressure on the PP. Just need to find the right balance.

Okay, so because one former player would take it that way means every player would take it that way? Also, how it's present absolutely matters. There's a huge difference between going to Marner and saying "here's a trade we've been offered that we'd like to accept" and "we've been offered this...

None of this has anything to do with fixing the PK.

They’d absolutely have better record under Keefe. As much as he didn’t feel like the right guy to get the team over the hump, he clearly understood what he had on his roster - a bunch of highly skilled creative players - and he let them lean into their strengths. Berube, on the other hand, is...