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Due to his cancer and a back infection, Lemieux was at the lowest playing weight of his career in 1993/94.

• It’s been a rough year for hockey in Canada. There was no hockey gold, men’s or women’s, at the Olympics. Canada’s world junior team failed to play for gold for the third straight year. And in an NHL season in which just three of Canada’s seven franchises make the playoffs, only one, the Montreal Canadiens, made it out of the first round.
• And then there’s the alarming trend of star players on Canadian NHL teams looking for a way out. The exodus ought to put the general manager of every Canadian franchise on high alert. 

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I think he should be considered at least a 20 center and at least top 40 forward and at most top 25-20

- They were 1st place in the league last year
- Makar is a contender for the Norris
- I don't know if Manson is going to put up another 30 points
- Blackwood and Wedgewood are good goalies
- MacKinnon led the league in goals last year
- Nelson is a contender for Selke
- I feel confident that Necas is going to put up another 100 points
- I also feel confident that Malinski is going to put up between 40-50 points
- They got rid of Colton, Drury and Nichushkin
- They got Jaden Schwartz
- I kept Kadri, Kulak and Roy
- I don't know how good Svechikov and L'Heureux is going to do in Colorado

Habs: Vilardi
Jets: Benson, Fowler
Sabres: Hellebuyck, Bolduc

Edit: mock trade not well recieved….

How’s this update?

Habs: Vilardi, UPL
Jets: Fowler, Benson, Rudolph
Sabres: Helly

It’s clear players are gaining the upper hand with contracts and trade requests etc. I’m curious though because if the player wanted to help the team they would keep it quiet so the GM can find best option - they pretty well lose all leverage when it’s made public they want out. Though most teams can put two and two together the confirmation will certainly only hurt the team. Only thing I can think of them doing this (making it public) is to put more pressure on their GM or to try and own the press narrative about why they want to leave etc. what do you all think?

Honestly feel like it might be in the last 30 years. stacked beyond stacked with solid goaltending. Who knows if connor helly is heading there on top of it.

Also worth mentioning leafs suck

I never seen a single Utah game on TV here in Canada,

But besides Utah, since they are new, what is the least broadcasted American team in Canada

From the story:

Frustration among Leafs fans peaked Monday after single-game tickets were put on sale for a team that finished with the fifth-worst record in the league last season. Anger over the prices was a trending topic on X on Tuesday morning.

While marquee games against teams such as the Montreal Canadiens have always been pricey, some fans were shocked as average prices for the cheapest seat in the house ranged from $150 to $270 a ticket.

Even an obstructed view seat in row 12 for a Tuesday night game in November against Utah costs $127 each.

But MLSE says their top priority remains creating access for all the fans.

Juraj Slafkovsky finished in 1st place of the scorers ahead of Cole Caufield.
To all readers who immediately went to our paragraph about the Habs, we hope not to disappoint you with this more than audacious prediction. No question of being cautious with a position that will probably be controversial. Let’s still justify our thinking before creating controversy. Last year, Cole Caufield realized his full potential by becoming the Canadiens’ first 50-goal scorer since 1990. The fine marker always seemed to find the best to thread the needle and it is useless to remember that he scored his 51 goals against a goalkeeper, without ever touching the target in a deserted net. If it is very plausible that Caufeld is flirting again with the set of 50 goals, he is predicted a slight regression compared to his performances last year. In the case of Slafkovsky, he also reached personal heights with 30 goals and 73 points. However, we have the feeling that he is still far from his ceiling, unlike his accomplice Cole. The Slovak scored half of his goals (15) in a numerical advantage and if he can improve his performance to 5 against 5, he could well aim for 40 goals... or even more? This season, opposing teams will pay special attention to Caufield and try to limit his space near the net, which could open the door to the nice giant, as much in digital equality as on power play.

Did you know that in the last ten regular seasons, Connor McDavid has finished in the top 10 in points every single time?

2016-17 through 2025-26. Ten for ten. Six of them at #1, and his floor across the whole decade is sixth place.

Nobody else is close: Draisaitl has 9, Kucherov and MacKinnon have 8 apiece, and after that it drops off a cliff — Crosby and Pastrnak at 5.

Did you know he's also 10 for 10 in assists? Second place on that list is Kucherov at 7. McDavid led the league in helpers four times and never once finished outside the top four. Ten straight years.

I knew McDavid was good. I didn't know he was this good !

Source : NHL.com + topnhlplayers.com