The Maple Leafs are going to Detroit for the second last game of preseason. This is game one of a back-to-back home-and-home against the Red Wings. Now, who is even on that team these days...
Val Filppula! The only old guy the Islanders didn’t sign to 7 years last summer, and he’s moved on. Jake De La Rose, he gets around, I guess the Habs figured out he’s not French. Frans Nielsen, Freddie’s old buddy from back home, and I do mean old. Oh, hey, he’d under contract through age 37. That works out well, honest, ask Kyle Dubas how you get out from under that kind of deal.