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Not substantially. But Lyon will likely be able to handle a larger workload than those two before wearing down, which has its benefits.

His stats from the past couple years in Detroit are pretty unassuming but I haven't taken the time to actually watch him play. My initial read on it is he's good enough to comfortably hold down the backup role but not someone who will prevent Levi from earning that spot. This sits much better with me than going into the year with UPL-Levi as our two goalies.

I haven't seen/heard the segment, but apparently Friedman has us as the expected landing spot for Alex Lyon.

Could be Skjei as well, he has a similar contract situation. If they do actually trade for Karlsson, I'd imagine they'd move both of them.

Hard to deny that DeDominicis has sources at this point. And he's been fairly forthright about when he has scoop and when he doesn't. Outside of the Dahlin signing (which we're obviously still waiting on), he's been pretty clear that he doesn't have any intel about upcoming moves right now.

The Lou special.

What kind of contract do we expect Soucy to get? And would we be happy with giving him that money? He's the type of player I'd love to see them target for the right price. Lefty but can play on the right side if needed. Has played bottom pairing minutes his whole career but I think there's potential there to be a #4.

Gets handed the award by the guy he looked up to and modeled his game after. Gotta be an amazing night for Linus.

Like others have said, that's Jeff Skinner.

Hockey related revenue.

Buffalo: X, Anderson Rochester: UPL, Subban Looks fine to me. Better find that X...

That one stings a little. We don't really have a Gustavsson to send back, but I'd like to think we could have made something work. Edit: Didn't realize that Gustavsson was such a high pick, he looks pretty equivalent to UPL. So in that case, I'm glad we didn't go this route.

From a quick look at Hockey Reference, Milano has been given very skewed offensive zone deployment for his entire career, as high as 76% OZS last season. And I haven't watched Milano since his draft year but his profile was of a flashy skilled player who needed to round out his overall and defensive game. Are we sure that those Evolving Hockey numbers aren't a mirage created by his heavy offensive zone usage? I know players can adapt their games to carve out a role, but at first glance I'm not seeing the profile of a solid defensively responsible winger. I'm seeing a "sheltered third scoring line" winger, and I'd much rather see that position be given to one of the kids than Sonny Milano.

Where was the Gibson rumor reported? I must have missed it.

Assuming this happens, that fills one hole and potentially opens up another. Sens fans seem undecided on if Forsberg/Gustavsson is the answer or if they'd bring in another G.

Probably not very long if at all. They like to get you moving around as soon as possible.

Here's the clip:

Tim & Friends, I believe it's a daily Sportsnet show that gets repackaged as a podcast the next day. There's a YouTube clip floating around somewhere, I'll try to find it.

Friedman absolutely said that he was getting a lot of pushback on the Weekes tweet. Said that he would never disparage another reporter but he made it clear that none of his sources were echoing what Weekes said. This was on Tim & Friends shortly after the tweet. Now which one of them you trust more is a whole nother story.

Jack would also be on LTIR so there isn't an immediate concern there. Hitting the cap floor is an issue for us, and they'd have to figure out the cap ceiling once he returns.

I'd have to dust off the CBA to remember the specifics, you may be right, but either way the Caps get first dibs at sending him to their farm team. Very little chance he ends up in Rochester.

If they did everything else exactly the same but signed a legitimate starting or at least 1B goalie? I would say they have low expectations but aren't tanking. Anderson, Tokarski, and Dell? That's a clear tank job.

Because they were the original team to put him on waivers. If we were allowed to claim players and send them down ourselves, no worthwhile player would ever make it through waivers and the teams at the top of the waiver priority list would just stack their AHL teams.

Since we are first in the waiver order, the 30 other teams all have an opportunity to put in a claim. If none do, the Caps are then free to send him to Hershey.

No need to stoke the flames here. Jack will be starting the year on LTIR anyway, so just label someone else as the interim captain for that reason. Formally stripping him of the C just turns the whole situation into an even larger circus.