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2 assistant GMs down, 3 remain: Hayley Wickenheiser (Player Development), Darryl Metcalf (Hockey Research & Development), Ryan Hardy (Minor League Ops & GM, Toronto Marlies). Metcalf's an odd one, the Leafs should have the best and biggest analytics team in the league and even when Dubas was in...

If Pridham was just a cap guy: the current CBA is basically 20 years old now. Pridham had a massive edge over the the rest of the field originally but you don't need to be a genius to understand how it's calculated anymore. The Canes literally found a guy on twitter to be their cap expert. If...

Hey now keeping good players away helped us get the 1st overall, gotta move on. But yeah, this run should put him in a legitimate conversation to make the team heading into training camp. He might not clear waivers again.

Was surprised to see Danford get into this game (over Chadwick). Figured he was just assigned to the team for practices and stuff.

Well time to call Anaheim for permission to speak to Woodcroft.

What did 20 hockey people have to say about Bowman though?

It's funny because even the comparables he uses for the guys ahead of him (Seth Jones, Jakob Chychrun, Aaron Ekblad respectively) are a level below McKenna's (Panarin). I think he's just ultimately leaning a little too hard into the D > W argument. But also even a prime-Seth Jones seems like a...

The more I think about it the more Jay Woodcroft jumps to the top of the list for me. 1) Got career years out of McDavid/Drai/RNH/Hyman in 22/23, 2) Oilers weren't exactly loaded with young talent but did coach pretty much all their good recent prospects both in the AHL and NHL (Bouchard...

Not to say that it's a fluke necessarily but they had the 3rd highest overall save percentage in the league this season. Can UPL and Lyon repeat that, I dunno. Goalies are obviously fickle. Your overall point is of course right though, the East will continue to be tough. I'd say basically every...

Terry sure had this one done quickly. David Carle is obviously a bit of a dream candidate. He'll be able to pick his first NHL spot when he wants to and I kinda just figure it'll be with a U.S. team. Cassidy, Woodcroft, Malhotra would be my 3 favourites past that. All have varying levels of...

Only possible way he stayed would have been if Pelley made the call, either because he liked him too much or for monetary reasons. So this feels like a good initial sign that he won't be too involved. Hopefully it stays like that.

I've been a fan of Jenner for years now, but despite being younger than Coyle I'd be way more hesitant to get into long term situations with him. Lots of miles on that body and it's been ages now since he's been able to get through a full season without an injury. Southern Ontario guy though so...

Well heck a $6mil x 4 year deal before going on LTIR is basically a bargain then.

Am I the only one who doesn't think this contract is that crazy? He's a massive right-handed centerman who eats defensive zone face-offs, frequently matches up against other teams best players, and has hit 60 (or 58) points in 2 of the past 3 seasons. He's getting old sure but this deal should...

Laughton had a respectable 49.8 CF% and 54.5 xGF% with the Kings while being buried in the defensive zone. Led all Kings forwards in PK time post-trade and had the highest face-off percentage (59.4, slightly better than even Kopitar). And chipped in a little offence. He basically did everything...

When does Derek Clancey's contract expire?

Yeah, Lorentz is such a bummer. Super nice guy, but unfortunately shows that on the ice just as much as off.

Malott would be interesting. Local guy. His underlying numbers are pretty good with LA, and he's has 4 straight 20-goal seasons in the AHL so there's obviously some talent there too. I think there would probably be too much overlap with Joshua and Lorentz though as the roster stands right now...

I definitely don't either, so this is all very hypothetical.