Some, upside, yes. He is a top-four d-man with a cannon of a shot. It depends on the value...like anything else...

Is Eric Condra good? I can't get a good read on him and I've only seen him play like 30 games. Erik Condra (RW) - Responsible winger with very strong hockey sense. Identifies his check quickly and saddles up with him just as fast. Just an average or even slightly below average skater. His skillset ...

Yeah, I'm not going to bet against Carey Price, especially not against this very average Senators team...#PriceForPrimeMinister

Care to make it interesting...?

Capitals/Islanders game 7 is the day before Canadiens/Senators game 6. The NHL still hasn't figured out this whole scheduling thing.

Game 6 is on right now...

I don't get why the Blues lose things all the time...always...forever...you gotta think there's some major changes coming there...

Yeah, Crosby went to the 2006 World Championships and was the best player at them...

A rare Oshie sighting in a playoff game...as he scores from zero-angle with just three seconds left to make a 2-1 score with 20 minutes left...

Crosby is not seriously hurt, he will play for Canada at the World Championships...

I mean, even Ovechkin has been nowhere in the series against an Isles team that isn't overly tidy defensively...this is the second series in a row where Stammer has been as good as he should be...

Eh...not really...

The Ovechkin one I thought was a board at live speed...

I have a Tampa bay - St. Louis final.

Same.

Yeah, me.

He did not. Spent time on the fourth line as the season ended...I guess that explains the discount price at the deadline...they knew better than me once again...

Ownership has immediately over-ruled this decision...

You don't need quite so many draft picks if you're good at scouting...you're not good at scouting if you're using picks on Casey Pierro-Zabotel, Andy Bathgate, etc. and that's not hindsight drafting, that's at the time they were butt squad and they didn't get better...at least with guys like Veilleu...

It's tough, the feeling around the league for the last several years is that you can't buy enough goals to make it worth it...you need entry-level goal-scorers, that's when they're scoring at 21, 22, 23...you're not getting those guys as free agents, and it's tough to trade for them, so it's really ...

Find a new job.

I thought he played really well down the stretch for us...but in these playoffs - as he's been in previous playoffs with different teams, in different systems - he comes up way short...you'd think his style of play and his beard and all that, he'd be a playoff guy...but he's takin' off like a lead b...

I don't believe that you can hold two contracts at once, so say the Bruins sign Ray Shero, that voids the Penguins contract effectively. Whether he would have to agree to mutually dissolve it or not I think is just a formality...

And I can't imagine anyone basing it off that...but that is unfortunate...

It's obviously not easy to reel back in a group from globetrotter hockey to this structured hockey that we play now...harder yet with the revolving door of injuries, and really transactions too (however necessary they may be)...he's done a very good job, he's very tactically sound, he has gotten a l...

Re: "currency protection" - Can yous just touch briefly and simply (if possible) on what you're talking about for the layman...? I understand conceptually what you mean, but I don't know a thing about how it would work in practice... The easiest way to go about it would be to enter into a forward c...

Ray Shero and Boston may be a match...but I don't think the 3rd will come into play, or any compensation...these guys were terminated a year ago...ya know? When you say it out loud to yourself like that, it really just makes it seem unlikely...