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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...

Treliving trading Bennett away right before reaching his prime for a 2nd rounder and then signing him to an exorbitant contract as he enters his 30s would be peak... something.

PTO into a league minimum deal with some GP performance bonuses would have to be it.

Interesting note in the Athletic today: apparently doctors finally cleared Hakanpaa to play just days before the Leafs lost game 7 to Florida. Obviously he would have needed at least one injury to a defenceman to get into the line-up, but rough break for him. Wonder if the Leafs entertain...

This always bugged me when people tried to justify the very mediocre possession numbers against Ottawa as just being "Berube hockey". When the Blues won the Cup Berube came in mid way and took them from one of the worst possession teams in the league to one of the best. Like sure maybe there's...

Goals in this years conference finals: Stankoven: 2 Rantanen: 0 Necas: 0

His 5-on-5 scoring rate has been 1.43 points per 60 the past 3 season with Philly, which is pretty standard for 3rd liners. It was actually 1.80 this season before the trade, which is closer to 2nd line production even. With the right linemates he certainly has a lot more offence to give than...

I stopped reading when they suggested that we re-sign Holmberg.

Doesn't sound like there were a ton of bright spots on the Marlies. Nice to hear that Jacob Quillan seems to have had a pretty solid rookie season at least.

Every projected line-up that I've seen, including my own, has had Scott Laughton lining up at 4C. Is that seriously all that he is now? Did we really give up a 1st and a decent prospect for that? I really hope that this is like a Jake McCabe-type situation where his full year 1 performance is...

I agree with you about Bennett. I think Marchand's enough of a sicko to be down for it though.

Getting Duchene, who's coming off an 82-point season, for just $4.5mil feels like a bit of a pipe-dream. He might want to come back to Ontario at this stage of his career but it won't be with that much of a home-town/province discount like Tavares. But ultimately yeah this is probably what...

Someone's tell-all book about the last 10-11 years is going to be incredible.

While I like Gavrikov if you're moving on from Rielly you need to find a replacement puck-moving guy somehow.

I'm pretty curious to see what happens with Ekblad. For a top pairing, 6'4", 220 lbs right handed defenceman he doesn't seem to often get a lot of credit. Like The Daily Faceoff has him 10th on their top free agents list behind Ivan Provorov and is only projecting him to sign a 7-year, $6.9mil...

If we want to spend big money: Ehlers If we want to pick up some veterans: Duchene, Marchand, Kane, Giroux, Toews If we want middle-6 scoring options: Granlund, Dadanov, Kuzmenko, Mantha If we want middle-6 two-way options: Suter, Dvorak, Mangiapane If we want bottom-6 physical options...

Especially one that made $7mil a year.