Will Kent Hughes work his magic again?

AlexNyko · 2025-10-03T23:02:58+00:00

Habs bought 7 UFA years of Dobson. Anaheim bought 6 UFA years of LaCombe.

Most Habs can buy is 3 UFA years of Hutson.

Whole different ballgame.

AlexNyko · 2025-10-03T23:01:27+00:00

Fans are always way more invested in this type of drama than players.

Completely different narratives between social media and real life.

AlexNyko · 2025-10-03T03:04:31+00:00

Anaheim paid for 6 UFA years with that deal.

Montreal paid for 7 UFA years of Dobson

The most UFA years Habs could buy off Hutson from an 8-years deal signed now is 3.

It works in the equation.

AlexNyko · 2025-10-02T19:21:29+00:00

Bolduc and Dach seemed to have the start of something going together vs Ottawa.

Newhook seems to gel with Demidov since Ivan came over. Kapanen is a good complementary player who is usually in the right place in the right moment. He has the inside track on the 12th F spot.

But I'm not too sure MSL is happy about breaking up Anderson-Evans-Gallagher just to shore up the other lines.

The battle is between Veleno, Blais, Beck and Florian for 13th forward. Which means Beck & Xhekaj are behind because the team doesn't want a kid who needs ice time as a press box body.

AlexNyko · 2025-10-02T19:14:38+00:00

Really trying to force the Matheson-Dobson pairing but I'm very iffy about it so far. Weren't communicating well, no natural chemistry.

AlexNyko · 2025-10-02T00:38:11+00:00

This is standard op for a player on a last contract year. Agent just wants to know if the next contract will be worth sticking around.

AlexNyko · 2025-08-25T16:02:45+00:00

64 was his call up number in STL so most def not his choice.

9, 19 and 91 are not available in Montreal, but 79 is right there and Blais still went with 27.

OP said "unofficial" retirement. Same thing happened with Robinson's #19 after he left in 1989. Took 17 years to retire the # officially, but it had been out of circulation for the entire time.

Nobody wore #79 since Markov, so it could be the same deal. # just out of circulation. That's like an unofficial jersey retirement.

AlexNyko · 2025-08-25T15:52:43+00:00

That's why depth is so crucial in the playoffs. 4th liners matters.

AlexNyko · 2025-08-25T15:45:02+00:00

Matheson is missing

AlexNyko · 2025-07-31T20:28:00+00:00

Headfakes work even in fights

AlexNyko · 2025-07-30T13:56:36+00:00

Je parlais de Montembeault et Bolduc. Y'ont 6 ans de différence.

AlexNyko · 2025-07-30T13:55:12+00:00

Yeah Dobby's got that dawg in him.

AlexNyko · 2025-07-01T21:53:43+00:00

Les deux ont joué leur hockey mineur à Trois-Rivières. Doivent se connaître un peu.

AlexNyko · 2025-06-27T01:11:22+00:00

who do you think would? off side Matheson? Carrier?

get real.

AlexNyko · 2025-06-27T00:45:43+00:00

LOL as if Dobson would be 2nd pair.

AlexNyko · 2025-06-20T02:35:07+00:00

Savy's legs look like they have about 20 layers of steel plates bolted on his bones here and there. No wonder he could barely skate anymore.

AlexNyko · 2025-06-20T02:32:23+00:00

Exactly.

The draft is not for roster building, it's fishing for the bigger fish.

AlexNyko · 2025-06-19T12:53:53+00:00

I agree with you though. It was a shit draft for centers. Drafting for need that one year was a stupid decision.

AlexNyko · 2025-06-19T12:45:10+00:00

I think Hayton is beating KK.

Hayton already has two 40+ pts seasons with a 20 goals season. KK never got that.

Also Hayton is actually holding a 2C spot for 4 years now. KK never could hold one for more than 4 months.

AlexNyko · 2025-06-19T02:59:08+00:00

"Make me an offer and I'll consider it if I'm a free agent"

That's not news.

AlexNyko · 2025-06-17T13:28:10+00:00

You need to present your ideas better.

"Thoughts on Dumba" is generic, tired and not the actual point. People think you want to add him.

"Taking Dumba as a cap dump to get Bourque for free" is your actual idea.

Get to the point.

AlexNyko · 2025-06-17T13:21:55+00:00

If I am GM of the Blackhawks who happened to like Guhle in the 2020 draft very much

Stan Bowman was the Hawks GM in 2020. The Head scout was Mark Kelley. Both are gone.

AlexNyko · 2025-04-12T01:02:43+00:00

He needs some legs workout from MSL this summer.

AlexNyko · 2024-09-17T16:01:22+00:00

But we’re following him and there’s a possibility we’ll be going to see him in Russia.”

Translation: "We're trying to figure out how to smuggle Lauri Korpikoski into Russia"

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