I must admit the way they squeezed into the playoffs on loser points and lost in the first round was very impressive.
- dt99999

i prefer Tanner's take, that if the Leafs were luckier those loser points would have been 10-goal wins and the Leafs are the best ever

*sigh*
- AdamFrench

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Galchenyuk is going to have a great carreer in Colorado
- Fredobbface

He'll get traded this summer for Matt Duchene in COL or Sam Bennett and Alex Chiasson in CGY

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- Fredobbface

i bet Mike Babcock had a squinty eyed/pursed lips look in his press conference

damn it stinger why do you make me agree with fred?
- DoubleDown

Maybe 2 extra years in the hotstove Sarnia market could have prepared him better for the Montreal zoo.

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- Fredobbface

- AdamFrench

oh the irony

Clearly his 27 points in 48 games, +14 differential is an indication that he was not ready for the NHL.
- Fredobbface

I'm just saying they should have left him at center.

I'm just saying they should have left him at center.
- stinger67

He didn't even play centre in junior that year.

I'm just saying they should have left him at center.
- stinger67

Don't forget that at that time he formed maybe the best line in hockey's history with Eller and Gallagher.

He didn't even play centre in junior that year.
- AdamFrench

he needs to shed his vagina, shave his beard until he can grow man whiskers and stop spending so much time with Nathan Beaulieu because stupidity is contagious

Don't forget that at that time he formed maybe the best line in hockey's history with Eller and Gallagher.
- Fredobbface

you're being annoying now. we get it. you disagree with stinger.

he needs to shed his vagina, shave his beard until he can grow man whiskers and stop spending so much time with Nathan Beaulieu because stupidity is contagious
- DoubleDown

Probably the most important here. And also dump his whore girlfriend.

he needs to shed his vagina, shave his beard until he can grow man whiskers and stop spending so much time with Nathan Beaulieu because stupidity is contagious
- DoubleDown

Look how far Pyatt has come since they separated them two.

you're being annoying now. we get it. you disagree with stinger.
- DoubleDown

I disagree. I'm always annoying.

I disagree. I'm always annoying.
- Fredobbface

not true you have moments when you let your guard down and you're a tolerable human being

He didn't even play centre in junior that year.
- AdamFrench

Bergevin was so adamantly talking about him being the center they were looking for. They should just have put him there right away.

Bergevin was so adamantly talking about him being the center they were looking for. They should just have put him there right away.
- stinger67

but doesn't he actually not want to play center?

Bergevin was so adamantly talking about him being the center they were looking for. They should just have put him there right away.
- stinger67

It's a bit of bad luck that the one time you guys got to pick in the top-3, the top centre was Mikhail Freakorenko.

not true you have moments when you let your guard down and you're a tolerable human being
- DoubleDown

hug me

What they did wrong with him was bringing him in right away in that lockout season...they should have left him in junior the remainder of the year, and start him at center from day one of the 2013-14 season, and live with his mistakes.

Habs just came back from a poopty season, nobody was expecting them to be good right away as we all thought they would rebuild. There was no pressure to keep him then and absolutely win.
- stinger67

This. EXACTLY...

but doesn't he actually not want to play center?
- DoubleDown

I think he's better at wing. Unless he's paired with a creative winger like Radulov.

I'd like to see Lekhonen - Galchenyuk - Radulov next year.

But Radulov won't be back so Byron will be on our first line.

but doesn't he actually not want to play center?
- DoubleDown

I thought he didn't want to play wing?

I don't really think he knows what he wants

I thought he didn't want to play wing?

I don't really think he knows what he wants
- stinger67

he wants a vodka Red Bull

I thought he didn't want to play wing?

I don't really think he knows what he wants
- stinger67

He knows what he wants.