Also, this must have just happened. The guy Jr's crew has been training with was just in Vegas working with Pac a couple weeks ago.

Lol at Vegas fans somehow thinking they are better off now. (no, you still gave away assets for nothing)

They're just being idiot teenagers. They were all legit stoked and will remember that forever.

The other thing... I didn't see any of it, but Drouin was on with a group of real pros/prospects and the kids all said he was far and away superior to everyone else. Like not even close.

14-15 year old kids can be real dicks btw.

"Hope you didn't fist bump Drou too hard, he might be out for another season"

"Hope Drou didn't fist bump you too hard, you might fucking suck now"

On another note, my son was on the ice with Drouin yesterday.

There's a group of pros that train before the Bantam age group. Drouin stayed on and passed around and did a couple drills with the Bantams. Very cool.

But again, you can't discount that it costs an extra year and an extra $1M for any high end player to sign in Calgary. That's the same deal that Gaudreau was offered to stay in Calgary, not what he got on the open market.

I mean he's the exact same age as Gaudreau, scored the exact same number of points last year, got the exact same contract that Gaudreau was offered. (yes but it doesn't kick in for a year) That's how much it costs to re-sign these type of players. I think that's amazing work by Treliving to make the...

Also Cristobal Huet!

Radek Bonk and Marty St Louis both have sons playing in the Gretzky-Hlinka tourny

In other news, Hockey Canada has paid $7.6M in sex abuse settlements since 1989.

Wow, what a dude

yeah poor guy, that's sad to see.

Virtanen found not guilty

Can't wait to read the comments section on this one

Clown show

Haha sure, sure.

Holy shit what a trade

Thanks for the story there Cashin. Seeing how big hockey is in Canada, do you all think something will actually be done about this? Or will it just 'go away'? I know what would happen here. It would litigate until it's largely forgotten because the US is one of the worst places on the planet. I rea...

I don't think that's been specified (?). I think they originally said it was 8 CHL players including members of Team Canada.

This is predictable I guess, but sums it up:

“The only answer is simple and obvious. The primary motivation of Hockey Canada is not to compensate those injured as a result of its activities, but rather to insulate itself, its officers and directors from civil liability.”

Sorry about the massive quotes. That's behind the Globe and Mail paywall, so not sure if I'll be able to access it again.