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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...

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...