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The Tampa player hit McMann with a gloved left that was clenched around the butt of his stick to McMann's jaw. So McMann's response was significantly provoked. Having said that, there is no place in hockey for what McMann did in response - even though it lacked severe intent. And then McMann got...

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Thinking a little more about this: I've liked Robertson's effort. The guy has tried. But as I reflected, there are a lot of players in the AHL or below who also gave their all and never got a sniff from the NHL. On the fringes of pro sports is tough. A smaller player has to find other ways to...

If this team is .536 at the halfway mark and Treliving is still GM, the team doesn't have many young assets to acquire a player who can make an impact. All NHL teams would know Treliving is in a desperate situation. Cowan would become a part of the trade conversation to save his job - if he...

They've beaten the trade market to death for Robertson. They're obviously not intrigued by the return. Treliving's job is on the line. He probably feels like he has to do something. Makes me wonder if they're showcasing Cowan to improve on a return for him.

I didn't spend a lot of time evaluating the article in detail. I thought it was a decent one. It reminded me of discussions on here of Pat Quinn's teams and how much the forwards poor defensive play were impacting the team defense while the defensemen were shouldering the brunt of the criticism...

I think Scott Laughton did it with Philly Gordie Howe never did it

If he was a UFA a season or two ago, he was gone. I have more time for a guy who makes an effort. Robertson doesn't just make the effort in the game. He's made the effort to change his game to improve defensively and he has stuck with it. Clearly, he has top six goal scoring skill if given the...

Darren Dreger speculated from his movements after injury that it was Woll's hip. Might be a tweak - maybe more than that. He played on to end the period so it is murky as to how bad it is. Berube said a week or so ago that Stolarz injury was worse than they thought. He hasn't been on the ice in...

The Leafs called Steeves up and plunked him on the 4th line. So he sucked it up and his hits/60 was second to Reaves. But he got less than 10 mins/game and almost no PP time - 4th line checking role. In the AHL, aside from holding Marlies all time scoring records, he was 8th in AHL scoring last...

+1 Great goal

I hope so as well. I have felt all season that they're a better team on paper than they have shown to date. But they've only beaten two in the upper half of the league in points win%: Pittsburgh (#10) & Philadelphia (#9). Crazy things can happen in sports but they do not look like a true Cup...

Training with Kärppien still hoping to play in the NHL this season. He says he's close but has not told his agent to go for it yet

Mogilny was a more complete player. He didn't start out that way. But he listened to his coaches and even got some Selke votes. In the Leafs playoffs, he, with his bad back, and Sundin came out hitting everything in sight to inspire their mates to play physically. Mogilny was a much better...

At the outset, no. But Berube didn't do that at the outset. A coach tries a number of things as Berube did to motivate a player, Nylander in this case, to change his ways. As the player continues to not do as his coach asks, the coach tries other things. So the coach ramps up. Eventually, the...

I think I said this recently ... I'll try it a little differently. Quinn used to look at the roster and design his system around the talent he had. They would make personnel adjustments over the summer trying to address their shortcomings and then have his coaches adjust the system to the talent...

A lot of coaches would go after Nylander for his 100 ft, bruise-free game.

MLSE board "So Tre, how is the DNA of this team better than the team that was 4th in points win% last season and took the Cup champs to 7 games? ...As you've never won anything in your 38 year hockey career, where did this DNA blueprint come from? ..."

Particularly when the GM could look at the upcoming UFA market and know, like the rest of us, that there was not likely to be much available. And the GM could also look at his low ranked prospect system and lowest rated scant collection of upcoming draft picks and know it would be very difficult...

Woll Tavares - without his tenacity on the puck, there is no tying goal.