My temporary roommate

Same!

Hopefully a low pressure depth role helps him to find his game piece by piece

He went from a transition playmaking center with pretty high defensive involvement to an unremarkable and unrecognizable player.

I'm not sure what a 2nd knee injury is gonna do

Hughes made the right bet that went wrong at every turn

I'd go 11-7

Caufield Suzuki Slafkovsky
Evans/Dvorak
Gallagher Anderson
Newhook Demidov
Heinemen Armia

Guhle Carrier
Struble Huston
Matheson Xhekaj/Savard

Agreed, he's a fun player and personality, but he's been close to unplayable.

Unfortunately their potential replacements are uninspiring

I'm dying, what a great way to start the morning!

I completely respect that view, especially since neither Dach nor Newhook panned out to be 2Cs

If that's the case, then I hope it's one of the guys from the Good or Ideal part of the list

Right now we're seeing some organizational turmoil in NYI, VAN, and SEA, so maybe something will shake loose there.

FLA may decide to keep Bennett and if that happens, Lundell is a little more available

BUF, ANA, and UTA all want to be in the playoffs next year, maybe that's an opportunity

I agree that very few of these players scream "available C for a decent price".

Like most trades it's gonna come down to finding an opportunity, that isn't fully apparent at the moment

The 1st Monahan trade was the product of a very specific moment in free agency where CGY needed cap space

Here's my list

Cs
Ideal
Pettersson
Thompson
Rossi
Beniers
Byfield

Good
McTavish
McLeod
Hayton
Lundell

Worth a shot
Poitras
Turcotte
Zegras
Bourque
Lambert

Stop-Gap
Duchene
Tavares
W Karlsson
Horvat
Couturier
Bennet
O'Reilly
Malkin
Kadri
Nelson

Sam deserves this success!

He played with a very obvious injury (I believe to his glove arm) behind one of the worst teams in history back in 21-22 because they had nobody else

And this isn't the case of a tandem goalie having an excellent 40 games. Sam played the 3rd most games, he's a full blown 2010s era starter!

I wonder why they enter the zone on the left so much. I love Laine, but he tends to struggle with making the pacey passing plays required to establish possession in the O-zone

Anyways, this run has been really fun and I've been impressed with Reinbacher when he plays, he looks like a perfect fit for this team