Jiji

When does Aquilini hire Trader Phil as GM? Or is Gilly doing Rosetta Stone Italian? Roy @ $4 mill is a sweet deal for St. Louis. Huge upgrade on McDonald for you guys. I'm thinking St. Louis will be up there with LA and Chicago at the top of the West if Pietrangelo doesn't suck defensively this year. And DFA forgot to mention Alfredsson. So good. The Ryan swap is fascinating and could work out really well for both sides if Ottawa can re-sign Bobby da brain.

This has been an insane summer for the league. Don't like the Perron trade but they needed to shed salary. Paajarvi's AHL numbers are pretty bad though, particularly when everybody was scoring points like they were half off during the lock-out in OKC. Perron will do wonders for Edmonton, I'm surprised they couldn't get more value for him. Got to lol @ Nonis' summer. He mentioned David Bolland's, of 27 years, junior stats from 7 years ago to justify that deal. MacArthur and Grabovski were excellent possession players, but let's get rid of them and sign a 29-year-old power forward to a 7-year deal just before he hits the age when PFs typically decline. Oh, and Bozak. Just when I lose faith in Gillis, Nonis and other GMs show me how bad it can really be.