buddha

canadiens lead in nashville 2-1. nashville is a cautionary tale for all of you who want to spend money on free agents who are in their mid 30s. counter-tale: washington.

talbot saves them. the puck is just sitting there and the wings are all standing around watching. oh wait, tarasenko, compher, and rasmussen on the ice. that explains it.

and now its 2-1....

this isnt the real florida panthers. theyre missing all their best players.

for.****s sake they cant even hit an open net from 10 feet out.

ottawa only 2 back of florida now.

jinx

i dont even know if you can call this a "b" team. its more like a c- team. wings up 2-0 and it should be more.

in other words, it all comes down to those last two games. however, milwaukee still has two games against new orleans, and that team is actively trying to lose.

it even made the front page of espn. it takes a lot to knock...checks notes...womens basketball...off the top lage of espn but oveckin did it. at least for the next 15 minutes.

come on rookie. sheesh.

two more goals for lombardi tonight. one of them was a great rush. danielson with three assists. like kasper last year, those two might be breaking out at the end of the year. we'll see in the playoffs.

montreal wins. rangers lose. cbus loses. next two games are must wins if you still want to make the playoffs.

pistons are going to lose because memphis has desmond bane and we dont.

i dont get to watch the pistons that much, are they always so whiny about every call?

they miss duren. cant get a sniff of a board against edey. still, no ja means they should win this game.

did i miss the marvin bagley tribute video?

the problem with the restricted route is that EVERYONE has money now because of the cap going up. if you want a guy like knies or miller youre going to have to offer them a deal where you part with a first round pick next year. otherwise the other team will just match it. do you want to part with the #10 pick in the draft? maybe they should considering two of the things they desperately need RIGHT NOW are a 23-25 year old good defenseman to pair with seider or edvinsson and a big strong winger who plays physical and score. one would hope after years of accumulating multiple second rounders we would have one of those, but alas, we still wait on cross hanas, dylan james, dmitriy buchelnikov, william wallinder, etc... back to rfas...so many other teams in the wings' position are flush with cap space now and can offer more money, montreal, philly, columbus, etc. as stanley keeps snidely pointing out, some of those second and third round picks yzerman accumulated are going to have to hit NEXT YEAR. the timeline for those guys to be nhlers is next season. the timeline for them to be stars is passed, but they can still become quality nhlers. heck, dennis cholowski is still in the nhl so why are we letting jeff petry and justin holl block buium and wallinder? unless theyre not actually good...

wow shade...

if cade isnt healthy they will an early out and probably get swept.

huge win. keep hope alive! need the habs to lose a couple this weekend.

stew should be on kat the whole time. kat is a pussy and when the going gets tough, stew will remind him and kat will shrivel up like he usually does.

you cant sign henderickson and keep their depth. i'd rather keep the depth and draft someone.

i guess if the leafs re-sign marner for big money and still want tavares they wouldnt sign knies, but i wouldnt give up a first and third for him. maybe a second. big winger who can score?

"Minnesota Wild’s Marco Rossi, Toronto Maple Leafs’ Matthew Knies, Edmonton Oilers’ Evan Bouchard, New York Rangers’ K’Andre Miller and Will Cuylle, New York Islanders’ Noah Dobson and Alexander Romanov and Buffalo Sabres’ JJ Peterka and Bowen Byram." All those guys will be rfas unless they re-sign before the offseason. if you sign one for $4.58 million it will cost you a second round pick if the other team doesnt match. $4.5-6.8 costs you a first and a third. 6.8-9.1 costs you a first, second and a third. $9.1-11.4 costs you two firsts, a second, and a third. over 11.4 costs you four firsts. i'm not sure if you could sign any of those guys for 4.5m per year. if so, i would do it if it put the other team in a cap bind. but with cap going up, i dont see too many situations where teams wouldnt match a 4.5m offer for any of those guys. MAYBE the rangers. would you pony up a first and a third to sign miller to an offer sheet at 6.8m per season? i'm not sure i would if the wings are picking top 10. but that's probably the only way you can get one of the guys on that list.