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Uncle Fester, Steve Sullivan & Mike van Ryn are all still currently employed as Leaf assistant coaches. I believe the next step in the process is Hiller will be talking with those guys and deciding which of them, if any, he’ll be keeping. And then after that they’ll be hiring new assistant...

Russia’s been hammering Kyiv hard in the past few days. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Seattle did do a shit job in their expansion draft. But coming in four seasons after Vegas's expansion draft also put them at a disadvantage compared to Vegas. Pretty much every team that made expensive side-deals to protect certain players got to watch the results of those deals unfold over...

Lay off. You already got Dobson last summer. Sharing is caring.

I mean...why not both? One-stop-shop to fill 2C & add a top-pair RHD.

What do people think on Pettersson? A buy-low opportunity on a guy with potentially #1 center-level talent? Or an albatross contract that shouldn't be touched with a ten-foot pole?

Personally, I wouldn't have ever imagined they would hire one of Mike Babcock's former Toronto assistants.

Yeah, I can believe he was under consideration, but I don't believe he was offered the job and turned it down. I suspect he'd interviewed with both the Kings and the Leafs. While he was under consideration for both jobs, the Kings offered him their job. Laviolette tried to leverage that offer...

Hugh can go fuck himself. If any NATO countries had actually swallowed the bait and joined Trump and Netanyahu’s boondoggle unprovoked war, once their boots were on the ground Trump would’ve immediately pulled out, left them holding the bag and raged at them for their failure to reopen the strait.

It’s kind of wild that only three guys in the entire 100+ year history of the NHL have ever head coached two different teams to a Cup and the last guy to do it was Scotty Bowman. And then at the same time, that fact doesn’t even make a dent in the conventional wisdom that the best thing you can...

Yep. Again, my preference would be to not trade Knies at all. But if we are trading him, it should only be for a stud #1 in his prime with multiple years of control. Not an over-the-hill former stud #1 in his 30’s. Not a pending UFA. Not for a “decent top-pair/top-4 defenseman”. And not for a...

I’ll be happy to see Carlo go, but I hope we do a bit better for him than just moving up a handful of spots in the draft. That’s all the Sabres did here—trade a D in exchange for moving up seven spots in the draft.

Dunno how good Josi is these days, but in the context of a Knies trade I don’t care either. Trading Knies for a 36 year-old would be insanity. Parayko is nothing close to a stud #1 D and is also 33. Hard pass on him as well. And then New Jersey isn’t trading Luke Hughes when they clearly are...

Interestingly, the only three Danish players in history to win the Stanley Cup (Nik Ehlers, Fred Andersen & Lars Eller) all beat the Vegas Golden Knights in the final to do it. Doing the good lord’s work, my Viking friends.

Fuck getting a “package” back for Knies. The only circumstance in which I’d be remotely interesting in seeing him get traded is if a stud #1 defenseman in their prime with at least three years of term (or team control) is coming back the other way.

“Hi Jim, Steve Simmons, Toronto Sun. I have spoken to several dozen people from around the hockey world—important, big-name people who’s names we would all recognize—and to a man they all describe you as an ancient horrifying undead monster that sustains his unnatural life by tearing the...

That’s not even real wall panelling. That’s the same cheap-ass grey laminate flooring that every single shitty house flipper installs when they do their half-ass, surface-level renovations.

One thing Chayka will have to make sure of is that Hiller doesn’t have any say when it comes to making coach’s challenges. Because he had one of the worst ones in history while he was in LA...

Again, not a Chayka fan at all—but it seems nuts to assume he’s fine hiring a guy with zero interest in playing his own acquisitions.