#isles

While the usual suspects are falling over themselves about Lou's comments and players talking about how they've no intention to retire...

I'm paying attention to the fact that certain players look like they know they're not coming back next year and the repeated

Cumulative Hangover Man, it varies who you talk to but general consensus is:

Martin and Clutterbuck need to go.

JGP needs to go.

Nelson, perhaps.
Pelech, perhaps.
Lee, perhaps.
Palmieri, perhaps.

There's some of these I agree with and some of these I don't.

Cumulative Hangover It's real, real hard to replace a 30G scorer in today's NHL but you can't let him go for free and you can't resign him unless he's taking a significant discount.

Matt Cumulative Hangover They would just be replacing him with another highly paid free agent, and that would just nullify any value in off loading him in the first place, other than the draft pick recieved in return which won’t help in the the interim.