Hello hockey fans out there. Episode 165 of the Hockey Free For All Podcast has arrived. Take a listen and keep up on things happening in the off-season summer months that will affect the coming regular season.

#1. Hello! Carey Price can’t be voted in to the Hockey Hall of Fame. He’s not officially retired. He needs to be retired for 3 years at a minimum before he is even eligible.

#2. What is with the continuous trade insanity in Montreal?

#3. The definition of stupidity is?

#4. Players will want out of and prospects will reenter drafts if the is no path or roster spots for them in Montreal.

#5. Enough Trades in Montreal. Neither the Dobson or the Bolduc trade has made the Montreal Canadiens better. These trades appeased people. They were not hockey trade or for the betterment of the team’s roster.

#6 The Montreal Canadiens better hope that the trade of Logan Mailloux doesn’t haunt them for the next 10, 13 or 15 years!

#7. At the amount of Money Zack Bolduc is making he better be a minimum of a point per game player, which translates too a minimum of 82, soon to 84 points per season player, and that’s at a minimum. His contract value and yearly payroll impact should have expectations of a 100 point per season level.

#8 The soon to arrive prospects that there better be roster spots for in Montreal, starting with the forwards include, Alexander Zharovsky, Hayden Paupanekis, L.J. Mooney, Ivan Demindov, Michael Hage, Tyler Thorpe, Florian Xhekaj, Luke Tuch, Jared Davidson and Sam Harris. On the defensive side, prospects include David Reinbacher, Bryce Pickford, Owen Protz, Bogdan Konyushkov and Adam Engstrom. Anyone of these prospects are better than anyone else, on any other NHL club, that Montreal could obtain.

#9. Not fan of Grant McKenna signing with Penn State of the NCAA. I don’t see how, in any way, this prepares Grant McKenna any better for the NHL.

#10. The CHL is a far better league and player development system than the NCAA is.

#11. NCAA players are ready for the NHL any sooner.

#12. NCAA players are not any better developed.

#13. NCAA players do transition to the NHL game or its physicality any faster.

#14. Hockey is Canada’s sport. Always has been, always will be. Every other country is a guest at the table. Just like Baseball, Basketball and Football are America’s sports, always have been, always will be. Soccer is, always been and always will be Europe’s sport and no one else’s. This has been and always will be the reality for every one of these sports

Hello Hockey Fan’s, out there. The 2024/2025 regular season, playoffs, Stanley Cup Championship, 2025 NHL Entry Draft and Free Agent frenzy may be over, but the topics to discuss continue at a relentless pace.

The topics of Episode 164 of the Hockey Free For All Podcast include-

#1. Was trading the 16th and 17th picks in the first round of the 2025 NHL Entry Draft, plus NHL roster forward Emil Heineman the right move to acquire Right-Handed Defenseman Noeh Dobson.

#2. The highlight of Noeh Dobson’s career in his first 6-years, has been one 70 point season?

#3. Noeh Dobson is not a physical defenseman.

#4. Mitch Marner goes in a sign and trade with the Las Vegas Golden Knights that net’s the Toronto Maple Center Nicolas Roy

#5. The Montreal Canadiens trade goalie Cayden Primeau to the Carolina Hurricanes for a 7th round pick in the 2026 NHL Entry Draft.

#8. Michael Pezzetta signs a 2-year free agent contract with the Toronto Maple Leaf’s

#9. The Edmonton Oilers have lost free agent winger Corry Perry to the Los Angeles Kings.

#10. The Montreal Canadiens trade Logan Mailloux in a 1 for 1 deal to the St. Louis Blues for Forward Zack Bolduc.

#11. Congratulations to the many people who just couldn’t see or understand how the Montreal Canadiens could draft Logan Mailloux.

#12. Better hope trading Logan Mailloux to the St. Louis Blues doesn’t haunt the Montreal Canadiens for the next 13-years.

#13. Imagine if Logan Mailloux has a lights out Stanley Cup Final against the Montreal Canadiens, eliminating them, and holds up the Stanley Cup in a victory lap around the Bell Center in Montreal.

#14. No idea what the signings of free agent forward Alex Belzile, defenseman Nate Clurman and forward Samuel Blais for 1-year contracts bring to Montreal other than veteran depth players for the Laval Rockets.

#15. One signing that does make sense is the signing of goaltender Kaapo Kahkonen as it provides Jacob Fowler in Laval with a legitimate back with experience.

#16. David Savard, Emil Heineman, Christian Dvorak, Michael Pezzetta and Joel Armia are gone. Hopefully it opens up roster spots for internal prospects.

#17. Rapheal Harvey Pinard signed by the Pittsburgh Penguins.

#18. Fortunately, the Montreal Canadiens still have David Reinbacher, Adam Engstrom, 2024 4th round draft pick defenseman Owen Protz and 2025 3rd round draft pick defenseman Bryce Pickford.

#19. Left Wing Nikolaj Ehlers has signed with the Carolina Hurricanes.

#20. It would be fantastic if the Montreal Canadiens traded Patrik Laine and center/left wing prospect Oliver Kapanen to the Carolina Hurricanes for Nikita Artamonov, Bradly Nadeau, Alexander Perevalov and Ryan Suzuki.

Hello Hockey Fan’s. Welcome to Episode 163 of the Hockey Free For All Podcast, this week’s topics include-

#1. Mitch Marner is not worth a 15 plus million per season contract

#2. Conner McDavid is not worth a 20 million per season contract

#3. Brad Marchand is not worth an 8-million-dollar contract

#4. Sam Bennett is not worth 10 million per season even though his agent is demanding it.

#5. If you had a 100-million dollar team cap and you sign one player to a 20-million dollar contract, everyone understands that accounts for 20% of your entire team payroll, which has 20 players on a team.

#6. The Dallas Stars have resigned Matt Duchene to a new 4 year 18-million-dollar contract.

#7. The Ottawa senators have signed Fabian Zetterlund to a new 3-year contract worth 12.825 million dollars.

#8. Thankfully, the Chicago Blackhawks have resigned Ryan Donato to a 4-year 16-million dollar contract.

#9 The Philadelphia Flyers add Todd Reirden as an assistant coach and Dylan Crawford as a video coach.

#10. Steve Spott joins Marco Sturms staff in Boston .

#11. The Philadelphia Flyers acquire Trevor Zegras from the

#12. Best of luck to defenseman Roman Josi of the Nashville Predators as he was recently diagnosed with postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS).

#13. Michael Misa should decline playing for the Chicago Blackhawks if they draft him.

#14. After the conclusion of the AHL and NHL playoffs, its extremely who the true prospect talent is.

#15. The future starting 6 defensemen should be extremely clear in Montreal, but there are apparently many who do not want the Montreal Canadiens to succeed.

#16. Are Kaiden Guhle’s injuries over, not likely.

#17. The goaltending team in 2025/2026 for the Montreal Canadiens should be Samual Montembeau and Jakub Dobes without question.

#18. Laval Rockets Goaltending team in 2025/2026 will be Jacob Fowler and who.

#19. Other than Nick Suzuki, Cole Caufield and Juraj Slafkovsky there’s nothing right now.

#20. The arrivals of Florian Xhekaj, Tyler Thorp and Luke Tuch will bring physicality, until then, nothing.

#21. Carey Price isn’t even retired yet. How could he be voted into the Hockey Hall of Fame?

#22. The Montreal Canadiens have made a cataclysmically bad trade for Noeh Dobson, that makes absolutely know since in any way.

#23. David Reinbacher, Logan Mailloux and Adam Engstrom should be on the phone to their agent telling them, they want out of Montreal.

#24. What’s Lane Hutson’s next contract looks like now?

#25. No one should be getting paid more than Nick Suzuki or Cole Caufield on the Montreal roster.

#26. The Montreal Canadiens have an even softer and less physical defense.

#27. The Noeh Dobson trade doesn’t even remotely move the team or the needle forward at all. It actually moves both backwards.