Recent content by CarltonTheBear

I'm curious if they'll actually replace Lambert or just expand the roles of the current assistants. Marc Savard could take over handling the forwards along with PP while Mike Van Ryn does the defence and penalty killing. Sacco seems like he'd be a solid candidate if they look to make an...

I would add that if there were a possible scenario where the Leafs could trade Nylander for a big package and then re-sign Marner I would still do that in order to obtain that DNA/cap structure change the team possibly needs. But that would require Nylander to waive his NMC, which is unlikely...

Yeah I think you can criticize Marner and his camp for a lot of things but this definitely isn't one of them.

I mean... how? Nylander's contract expired first. And again for all we know the Leafs made every effort to re-sign Marner and were just rebuked. We'll never know for sure but I suspect if Nylander and Marner's situations were flipped where Marner was already re-signed and Nylander was the one...

Who's saying re-signing Marner wasn't a priority for the Leafs? It was Marner, or at least his representatives, who were rebuffing contract negotiations by all accounts. From the sound of it in a perfect world the Leafs would have been perfectly happy signing him to a deal larger than Nylander's...

I hate to break it to everyone but any hope of McDavid leaving Edmonton went up in smoke when LA couldn't beat them. Thanks Hiller.

Game 1: Panthers at Oilers, Wednesday, June 4, 8 p.m. ET; SN, CBC, TVAS, TNT, truTV, Max Game 2: Panthers at Oilers, Friday, June 6, 8 p.m. ET; SN, CBC, TVAS, TNT, truTV, Max Game 3: Oilers at Panthers, Monday, June 9, 8 p.m. ET; TNT, truTV, Max, SN, CBC, TVAS Game 4: Oilers at Panthers...

Cowan showing up good here (I hope we don't regret taking Danford over SOR one day).

For what it's worth Chris Johnston seems to be disputing the $7mil on a 3-5 year deals coming from The Fourth Period: This feels a lot more likely. I agree that even with the cap rising getting only 3 years with a $7mil AAV would be a little nuts.

I dunno about that. I think for a team that had pretty great goaltending (2nd in the league in 5-on-5 save percentage), over $24mil on your usual top 2 PK forwards, and a pretty solid top D pair in McCabe-Tanev being 17th in the league in PK percentage and 22nd in xGA/60 on the PK is actually...

I'm not sure you would need both hands to count the number of players San Jose would trade Celebrini for straight up.

My favourite dodge was the one about why Matthews wasn't given more time off during the season to fix his injury before playoffs.

They just saw Gaudreau walk as a UFA and Tkachuk force a trade a a RFA. Calgary isn't exactly a prime landing spot for free agents. I think you can argue that should have been the start of Calgary's rebuild and maybe they should have targeted youth and picks over Huberdeau and Weegar, but with...

The ship might have sailed on this since the cap is rising so much now but trying to find diamonds in the rough among contracts other teams deem too high would probably be it. Can't turn back time but Jake Walman, a Toronto born 6'1", 218 lbs puck moving defenceman, was traded WITH a 2nd round...