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PK Subban was among today’s cuts by the Habs.

Interesting note in the comments below – Brett McLean is still in Phoenix, even though Tikhonov and Turris are not. He is a very underrated player. I didn’t think he was ready this soon, but this makes me wonder.

Kyle Turris and Viktor Tikhonov have been sent to the AHL by the ‘Yotes.

Dallas has cut goaltender Richard Bachman, winger Sergei Korostin and centers Scott Glennie and Perttu Lindgren, among others.

The Oilers have waived Ryan Potulny.

The Lightning have assigned Lauri Tukonen to Finland.

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It’s no secret that the Avs have been impressed by prospect Ryan O’Reilly, even demoting Stoa ahead of him. Now they put that interest onto paper – they signed him to a three-year deal, according to Adrian Dater. I still don’t expect him to make the team this year, but it’s going to be a close call.

The Flyers made a slew of cuts, key one: Andreas Nodl. This bodes well for Pat Maroon. Mark Bell and Adrian Foster were let go.

The Bruins cut Max Sauve.

Funny how both players named Juraj Mikus (LA and TOR) were cut on the weekend. I would have mentioned this yesterday, but the TOR Mikus holds no fantasy interest to me. However, some people were confused, saying that I got the wrong Mikus. I did not – there are two. Both cut.

The Blues have cut Brenden Bell and Steve Wagner. That pretty much indicates that Pietrangelo likely has an NHL job.

The Preds have signed Francois Bouillion. That limits the amount of holes needed to be filled by Franson, Blum or Laakso.

The first of the surprise cuts – Ryan Stoa has been sent down by the Avs. He was my pick for the first line and a Top 10 Calder candidate by me. Adrian Dater cites his lack of a quick “first step” for the move. He’ll be back, but expect just cups of coffee this first pro season.

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Curtis Glencross helped his cause to land a spot on the Flames top six with a four-point game last night. He could be a 55-point player in that circumstance.

Speaking of helping causes, how about Theoren Fleury? Two points last night. Hey, it’s only preseason but our other comeback player – Jason Allison – is doing bupkiss.

O’Sullivan continues playing with Ryan Stone and Mike Comrie, and the line keeps producing. Sure, he’s playing so great that he has earned a spot alongside Hemsky and Horcoff… but will the coach break up that impressive third line? So impressive, could it be called the “second line”? And right now, it’s been Gagner centering Hemsky (and Nilsson). Horcoff has been with Jacques and Schremp.

Ryan Stoa is starting to see time on other lines now, having earned that opportunity thanks to a goal scored while playing on a depth line. Someone asked me in the comments the other day what the difference was between Stoa and Gerbe – both were on the fourth line, but I was hyping Stoa up as making the team and playing on the top line, yet down on Gerbe. The difference is this – Stoa is big and can be carried on a checking line. The Avs don’t have the depth to not keep him if he’s been scoring. In Buffalo, however, Gerbe would be useless as a checker and the Sabres have enough depth where they could easily say buh-bye to Gerbe if he’s not scoring. Anyway, Stoa saw time with the likes of Duchene, Galiardi and Svatos at different points of the game. Eventually, I see a nice fit as a winger with Stastny and Hejduk

Key Boston cut: Jordan Caron.

Key Calgary cuts: Matt Keetley, Keith Aulie

Phoenix cut 14 today. Among them – Stefan Meyer, Colin Long, Nick Ross and Josh Tordjman.
Oiler cuts include Slava Trukhno and Charles Linglet.
Devils cut Kevin Cormier, among others. The Preds cut Chet Pickard, Mark Santorelli (not Mike), and Hugh Jessiman among others.
Leafs cut, among others, Dale Mitchell, James Reimer and Mikhail Stefanovich.

Puck Daddy’s Chesnokov says that Anton Babchuk signing in the KHL is a “done deal”. Chesnokov is never wrong about Russian players. Bank it. So Babchuk flees – again – just when his potential was starting to surface.

The Blues have cut Lars Eller and Brett Sonne.

LA key cuts – Oscar Moller (as Angus mentioned this morning – see “next” below). Also Justin Azevedo, Bud Holloway, Andrei Loktionov, Juraj Mikus, Colten Teubert and Slava Voynov.

My apologies for the lateness today – lots of travelling, plenty of good beer with good friends ;) The biggest news of the past 24 hours is the signing of Brandon Dubinsky to a two-year deal. It’s for two years at $1.85 per – that’s quite a bit more than I thought the Rangers would give. Dubinsky owners can breathe a sigh of relief – he won’t be missing camp and he will be lining up with Gaborik. I don’t see why he won’t set career highs this campaign.

Filatov has made the team. Well, not officially, but with Freddie Modin out (again) with an injury for the next 4-6 weeks, you can give Nikita a spot without question.

Interesting that the Pens have invited Konstantin Pushkarev to camp. I wouldn’t read too much into that at this time.

Jared Aulin was released from his tryout agreement by the Blue Jackets.

The Wild will try Benoit Pouliot at center between Martin Havlat and Petr Sykora. Cha-ching. These opportunities do not come every day and failure to produce would be a huge blow to his already fading fantasy outlook.

Brayden Schenn scored a pair of goals for LA centering Kyle Clifford and either Juraj Mikus or Dustin Brown. I don’t think Schenn makes it this year, but he’s fairly close.

Jamie Benn scored twice playing with Ott and Modano. I would not be surprised to see that troika together in the regular season as a pretty productive third line.

The Cuts are getting bigger now. Here are the key ones:
Brian Salcido and Brett Festerling. ANA
Anthony Stewart, Brett Sterling, Jordan LaVallee, Andrew Kozek, Riley Holzapfel and Angelo Esposito. ATL
Mike Murphy, Chris Terry. CAR
Darren Haydar and Marty Sertich. COL
Corey Potter and Ilkka Heikkinen. NYR
Martin St. Pierre, Josh Hennessy, Ilya Zubov, Ryan Keller and Cody Bass. OTT
Richard Panik. TB
Anton Gustafsson. WAS

Anisimov’s beauty of a goal Saturday: