Stanley Cup of Chowder · Dec 29, 2020
Morning Skate: Missed opportunity
Photo by Harry How/Getty ImagesFolks, as training camps approach, there’s all kinds of stuff happening across the NHL.
Mike Hoffman’s PTO. Tampa dumping more salary by trading Braydon Coburn and Cedric Paquette. Henrik Lundqvist announcing that he needs open heart surgery.
But perhaps no move feels more like a missed opportunity than Corey Perry signing with the Montreal Canadiens.
No, not because the Bruins should have signed him, but because Perry is a uniquely dislikable (is that a word?) player who could have injected new life into the Bruins-Canadiens rivalry.