Meanwhile the Marlies got stomped with John Chayka in attendance.

Cleveland now leads 2 games to 1 and they play again on Friday.

As the Western Conference final got started, Vegas chose not to just roll over.

That's Pavel "arb rights" Dorofeyev. He is gonna get paid.

Vegas won the opener but just on the scoreboard (you'll get this in a second).

Not every coach gets fired.

Sabres sign head coach Lindy Ruff to two-year contract extension
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Brad Treliving on Overdrive:

- TSN
Bryan Hayes, Jeff O’Neill and Jamie McLennan are joined by Team Canada Co-GM at the World Championship and former Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brad Treliving to discuss whether or not John Tavares playing the wing on Team Canada will translate to him moving to the wing in Toronto in the future, Morgan Rielly’s future, the connection with former Maple Leafs head coach Craig Berube and more.
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"Even the games we won on the scoreboard we weren't winning," is a statement Treliving says he made back as far as November. He followed that up by making it clear he meant by scoring chances or driving play, so I guess he wanted that out there that he saw what was obvious. For whatever that is worth.

He's also got some comments that totally contradict the "did not see the train coming". He says he totally did.

I get it, he's positioning himself as not the big dummy because he'd like to rehabilitate his reputation.

And that's enough of that. Everybody who says anything to anyone on or off the record has some kind of agenda, even if it's just their own POV on the world. Believing a little too hard in whatever makes the news today is how you let them all play you.

Do something fun today! And later the Hurricanes have to play hockey again after a month or so off.

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