Tallon was in charge for 10 years in Florida and none of his decisions ever took the team anywhere. It could even be argued that much of the time he worked against himself.

This is a guy who takes league meetings so seriously, his only notable impact is he spends most of them chirping his colleagues. A GM who wouldn’t have contemplated the idea of making an offer sheet to Nikita Kucherov — something that the Computer Boys were apparently considering — because so many of the NHL’s managers have their thinking stuck in high school, acting like teenaged buddies afraid to piss off the cool kids.

Where do the Panthers go now? It’s going to be a big battle in the world of COVID. Because of their tiny fan base, they’re already heavily dependent on revenue sharing. It’s hardly the most promising scenario for any prospective owner or GM.

Tallon is gone, but his many long term contracts remain.

Quenneville gave up on Matheson, but at that price I'll take him.

You shouldn’t. He’s not good.

What happened to him? Is he just another Cody Ceci, a tools guy who got thrust into a starting role too early and learned nothing? He has the skating to be a weapon on transition, but yeah, just seems error prone. I wonder if he can be fixed like Petry.

The team has 20M in cap space but is being asked by ownership to operate at a budget 10M below the cap.

That means don't expect Hoffman or Dadonov back, and in order to make necessary improvements, some of Tallon's mistakes will have to go by any means necessary. They'll have to roll the dice on Tippett, Denisenko and Borgstrom.

Good luck with all that. Besides Barkov, Hubie, Bob and Ekblad, anything and anyone may go.

I thought they were being cheapskates by nontendering Wallmark, but they got Wennberg from Zito's old team on a sweetheart deal.

He also got out of Matheson's deal and a bottom pairing defence on a discount in Gudas/Nutivara. Nice job so far.

Cats will allow fans at their games: 25% capacity. The jokes write themselves.