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I've just started watching Bones. Only on season two, but really good so far.

He has eight assists in his last 11 games, tied for third on the team in assists since January 22. Everyone he is tied with or who is ahead of him average at least five minutes more per game.

holy shit

He also gave up first-minute-of-a-period goals twice in this game. Three times if you include the one that was called back.

Patrick Roy pretty easily. In later years, Saku Koivu, then Subban.

8 years ago:

Trocheck. If you are trading Kapanen, you need to get a centre back, unless the plan is to move Danault or Evans to second-line C.

Trocheck is a face-off beast. Can play PP and PK. Can be a second-line centre. Is physical. Can put up a 60-point pace. Has a lower contract than Kadri or Thomas.

You're right, it's not. It's why last year, Marchand got traded for only a second, Rantanen was traded twice, and Laine and a second were dealt for Jordan Harris.

None of those trades would have been accepted in PS5.

Laine and a second for Bobrovsky! Florida retains a bit to make the cap work. Voila! Both players are free agents this summer. Bob re-signs with the Panthers on July 1.

Note, I am not saying the Habs or Panthers should or would do this, but just that it's not as far fetched as it may seem.

They scored a 6-on-6 goal? Canada didn't have six men on the ice.

Makar has to hustle back there.

Can't wait for this game to be decided by a non-call by the officials.

The top line for Canada has a tendency to pass to traffic instead of shooting. All those passes are being picked off and brought back up the ice.

Man, did Sweden even take a shot in OT? You can't score if you don't shoot.

What is the turns in moguls? Canada lost gold because they were behind at the turns, but I have no idea what it is.

I just missed you guys! I graduated from Algonquin journalism in 1999.

There was no Leafs/Habs rivalry in the 80s/90s. That big "rivalry" was all media driven. The Leafs sucked, and since they were in different conferences, they rarely played.

But all those old Adams division teams? Especially since you were guaranteed to meet them in the playoffs? Pure hatred.

Matthews has three. MacKinnon and Hagel have the most at five empty-net goals, and then McDavid, Kaprizov, Kucherov, Stamkos and Larkin have four each.

Fun fact: Of all NHL players with at least 25 goals this season, only Cole Caufield (30 goals), Jason Robertson (30) and Tyler Bertuzzi (25) have scored all of their goals with a goalie in net. They combine for zero empty net goals.

@dobberhockey.bsky.social has a great tool called really bad starts (RBS: a start resulting in a save percentage under 85) and RBS percentage (percentage of games with RBS).

Montembeault is second overall with 11 RBS, and is first in RBS percentage. frozenpool.dobbersports.com/frozenpool_r...

.667. He saved two of three shots.

This is the temperature in my old home town tomorrow morning:

This is a great example of the ref calling the after-effect. Player goes down, arm goes up. The ref can't say he saw a trip or interference, because it didn't happen. So what is the ref calling? He's calling the fact that the Wild player fell down, nothing more.

Habs with two third-period shots 15 minutes in. Yeesh.

I talk about this a lot, but the Habs have too many periods with too few shots in a regular season.

Hard to win games when you're needing to score on 50% of your shots just to have the lead at the second intermission.

He reminds me of Taylor Hall. At the start of his career, Hall injured his ankle in a fight, had a teammate slash his face with his skate during warmup, needed shoulder surgery, etc.

All different issues, different injuries, different scenarios. But still injury prone. Just like Dach.

Fun fact: In the last three years, Laine has played only 75 regular season games total. In the same timeframe, Dach has played 74.

I would say they are both injury prone.

Nine NHL games tonight. Four Canadian teams playing. And not a single one on cable.

I swear the NHL sometimes does what it can to get me to watch non-NHL stuff instead.

@theathletic.com making sure I get all the latest news... By having two week-old stories as part of the first three stories I see when I log in.

Power still on in the west end of Ottawa.