I enjoyed the puckcast and look forward to the next one post draft. Tanguay: I think he should be number one priority. Koivu: Sign him. Komi: let him walk. He'll ask for too much. Kovi: this is a tough call. Depends what he wants to stay. Dandy: try to sign him. Schneider: keep him Bouillon: let him go. the Bros.: give them another year to mature. Pleks: try to trade him Lang: too old to recover from injury. Let him go. Higgins: sign him. Laraque: buy him out. Tommy K: good role player. Resign. D'Agostini: Resign. Chipchura: Not sure what happened to this guy. Trade him? Stewart: Sign him. Brisebois: retire. Lecavalier: he would be a great asset if we could knock a couple of million off his cap hit. Let someone else pay his salary.

Mr. Boone, please watch all 5 games of the Flyers series again. Count the weak goals. Price made R.J. Umberger look like Pavel Bure. We outshot and outchanced the Flyers in EVERY GAME. If Price had played as well as Biron (or Biron played as bad as Price), we would have easily won the series. The weak goals let the team down and when the players don't have confidence in their goaltending, they don't have a chance. Why did he get pulled for Halak for game 4? Please watch the series again.

Saku! Saku! Saku! Go Habs Go!! "I can't hear what Jeremy (Roenick) is saying because my Stanley Cup rings are in my ears" - Patrick Roy

OMFG!!! A new PuckCast Episode??? Inconceivable! Here's how I feel about this season: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf7c0dci1Bw I've made a huge mistake...

Great show guys. I agree with most of what was discussed. If LeCavalier is moved, Montreal should get it and will IMO. Tanguay needs to stay. _____________________________________________________________________________ -"I have 21 000 bosses". -Carey Price -Time to end Koivu's reign. Enough is enough. -Come back home Vincent... We need you.

Thanks for the puckcast. Always entertaining and insightful and the Moses Laraque comparison was hilarious. Gotta give the Kosts bros & pleks at least another season before giving up on them. It won't be very easy to replace those empty roster spots with anybody significantly better. Sign Tanguay long term but less than 5M per season. I share the on the fence opinion on Kovy. I definitely see Koivu & Komisarek going to other teams. I would be happy if Dandenault got signed as a 6th D again depending on the money. Forget the rest of the ufa Ds. I wouldn't sign Lang. He was a great player for us but I don't think he'll be the same after his injury at his age and he's at best a stop gap measure. I'd rather see more effort and cap space money put into getting a viable long term center with size even if it means sacrificing a season with an even weaker set of centers than we had this past season. Habs needs to get a proper defensive coach. That should be a strong priority right after getting a head coach.

If you guys have nothing to do...watch Canada play Halak and the Slovakians at the Worlds on TSN at 2pm

It's interesting to listen to Boone and Hickey sort through the ashes of this past season and try to put their finger on who started the fire and what can be salvaged from it. I didn't hear a lot that I would disagree with, but I did hear a lot of "I don't know", whether overtly stated or implied. I guess that's pretty much how we all feel right now. If Les Glorieux are to be more successful next year, decisions have to be taken right away, beginning with who will own the team. If that drama plays on throughout the summer, I suppose the status quo will happen by default. This may or may not be a good thing. The status quo means that Gainey stays. This means that he will organize the coaching structure. (I sincerely hope he does not decide to do both jobs. It's too much, and, as Hickey stated, he hasn't demonstrated that he has a coaching skill set that works in today's NHL.) Any new coach needs to be hired in time to participate in a meaningful way in the upcoming draft, and he should also have input into any free agent signings or trades. If this doesn't happen, you have a coach with built in excuses if the team doesn't do well. If Gainey is let go, once again the new G.M. must be hired right away. There is a ton of work to do before free agency and the draft, and less than two months to do it in. (This may be the strongest reason to keep Gainey. At least he's up to speed, knows what's in the system, and has a sense of where the team is headed.) What worries me most is that this whole thing could turn into a summer-long soap opera, with everything unfolding by default rather than because Gilette, who's busy trying to staunch the flow of red ink, or Boivin, whose position appears to be largely titular, made any clear decisions about where the team should be going. My only solace is that ending up with Gainey by default is way better than ending up with JFJ, or Brian Lawton by default.

I have been drooling over the thought of having vinny,saku,lang and lapierre as our centers for quite some time now! i dont see any other team that could match us down the middle if that were the case. Trade the little girl.trade jaro(hes great... but price is apparently the guy and if were not going to use him we might as well get something for him) K bros.......ship em ..not to T.O but send them to tampa as part of the vinny deal. bring back l'Artiste,tangay, higgins and schneider(schneids to help out with weber like he did havelid and kronwall...but keep his PT where he wont brun out/hurt himself). im sure some people will disagree...all i ask is why?

Great Puckcast. I always enjoy listening to Pat Hickey as we don't get to read his comments here on HI/O. He always has a realistic take on the team as he is very close to the Hab scene on a day to day basis. Mike Boone had the line of the day on Plekanec. There's always an element of truth to sarcasm. Shoutout to the Puckcast team - instead of late June, why not do a summer broadcast around the middle of July which would not only encompass the amateur draft but also some up-to-date trades and free agent signings? It could be a perfect summer hockey fix.

Just speculating, and have no real reason to believe it would be possible, but how about Larry Robinson returning to the fold in some kind of coaching position. Has to be better than Jarvis, don't you think? I wonder if it could work in any way?

I know the salaries are insane, but I'd love to see Vinny & Marty in Montreal. And Boone, sorry...I love Peice but with just average goaltending the Habs beat the flyers in last year's playoffs, You can admit that or keep your eyes closed. Can't give up on the K Bros yet...there is incredible talent there. I like the idea of Lang between them for at least one season. How was Brisebois overpaid? That being said, keep him for the league minimum asa a real # 7....or let him retire, either or. Please at least mention that Demers was misunderstood, He actually talked to Tanguay about it. Demers is a very knowlegeable man, whether you guys like him or not. Besides that, loved the puck-cast. Go Habs Go!! "I can't hear what Jeremy (Roenick) is saying because my Stanley Cup rings are in my ears" - Patrick Roy

1st player to be signed is Tanguay. Komisarek won't stay. wants too much money and not worth it, because there's no offence to his game. Kovalev should be signed for 1 year old. trade Pleks and the invisible Kost's brothers. buy out Laraque, send Breezecrap out to pasture, get an experienced goalie, trade Havlak, let Bouillon walk, and if Lang agrees to 1 year at no more than 2.5 mil, ok, otherwise he can walk as well with Schneider. So what does this all mean? well it depends if the team is sold. if sold, let Gainey go, hire a competent GM and hire a competent head coach, bring in a former Dman as assistant coach, get rid of Jarvis, Muller, Melanson as well.

Thanks for the puckcast. I'll stick it on my iPod, and it will be my bedtime story tonight. :)

I was just thinking the other day, "Wow it's been ages since the last PuckCast!" So now that that desire has been fulfilled, it's been a long time since the sun shined here in Halifax for a full week. ----- "Come on, let's keep a little optimism here." -- Han Solo, Return of the Jedi

That RDS poll.....ridiculous about Koivu. He should be their # 1 priority. you can't go out and buy heart & soul. He would thrive as a 2nd line centre. If not here, it'll be somewhere else. Go Habs Go!! "I can't hear what Jeremy (Roenick) is saying because my Stanley Cup rings are in my ears" - Patrick Roy

Interesting stuff from RDS.ca What player should be priority: Quel joueur autonome doit être la priorité du Canadien cet été? Résultats Mike Komisarek (7%) Saku Koivu (2%) Alex Tanguay (68%) Alex Kovalev (21%) Francis Bouillon (2%) Nombre de participants : 7469 If you can read french, take a look at this: http://www.rds.ca/canadien/chroniques/273768.html _____________________________________________________________________________ -"I have 21 000 bosses". -Carey Price -Time to end Koivu's reign. Enough is enough. -Come back home Vincent... We need you.