Bailey doesn’t have any trade protection, no excuse for him to be an Islander by the time the season starts

Sergechev is gonna be interesting to watch. Lets see how he does now with more responsibility as now there is no more McDonagh to eat all those tough minutes.

I mean it’s not like Sergachev has been your typical 3rd pair guy. He’s had pretty much identical ice time to McDonagh for the last 3 years, always #2 or #3 for ATOI among Lightning players, consistently over 20 mins a night and not exactly sheltered (his most common regular season 5v5 opponent when he played the Leafs was the Matthews line, and the Meier line for SJS before I got bored of scrolling past goalies on natural stat trick lol).

His brother Chris Grier is the GM of the Miami Dolphins. Cool how both brothers are GMs

So interesting thing about the McDonagh trade

If McDonagh didnt agree to waive his NTC he was gonna get waived and claimed by the CBJ

So in other words you want to be traded or waived and claimed

according to Friedman players are looking at signing with the Oilers a look differently after the Oilers playoff run

"One player said last week that the Leon Draisaitl/Connor McDavid playoff explosions changed the way people see the organization. Edmonton’s higher on the list of places people think you can win" his words

for some reason it is reported that the Oilers are in on Claude Giroux, unless it is Kane I don't want to see Holland sign a big name forward, I want 95% of his energy and focused concentrated on bringing in a starting goalie and some Dmen

This is important.
If Devils draft another Jack Hughes, what will go on his jersey?

“Hughes” (there will be two others)
“J. Hughes” (there will be one other)
“Jack Hughes” (one other)
“Jack D. Hughes”
“JD Hughes”

Lou would’ve traded Sergachev… for two 2nds

Lous gonna offer Kadri 9m x 4y

could be worse. he could have traded him for drouin

Rip Drouin catching a wild stray

Friedman said as of Monday he heard Varlamov is available if the offer is really good

hasn’t varlamov been on the block since before the deadline

Multiple teams called, Lou didn’t want to move him at the time

why not lmao

I was wondering the same thing lol

i suspect varly didn't want to waive for canada.

Colin White (OTT) on unconditional waivers for a buyout. This is a one-third buyout because of his age

— Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) July 5, 2022

He's signing in MTL guaranteed

Hughes was his agent iirc

Yeah, he'd be the perfect Dvo replacement if traded
And he can even slot in on 3C even w/Dvo
But if he signs, a dvo trade is imminent imo

I'm not too fond of trading Dvorak just to make room for a project. Maybe at the deadline if White pans out and the team is interested in re-signing him.

Hes either going to MTL or is gonna be another addition to Toronto's reclamation project list

Wouldn't mind it as its been so far so good for that area with only one miss

I could also see BOS being in on the mix, being a Mass native, played for BOS college