Hello Hockey Fan’s. Welcome to Episode 163 of the Hockey Free For All Podcast, this week’s topics include-

#1. Mitch Marner is not worth a 15 plus million per season contract

#2. Conner McDavid is not worth a 20 million per season contract

#3. Brad Marchand is not worth an 8-million-dollar contract

#4. Sam Bennett is not worth 10 million per season even though his agent is demanding it.

#5. If you had a 100-million dollar team cap and you sign one player to a 20-million dollar contract, everyone understands that accounts for 20% of your entire team payroll, which has 20 players on a team.

#6. The Dallas Stars have resigned Matt Duchene to a new 4 year 18-million-dollar contract.

#7. The Ottawa senators have signed Fabian Zetterlund to a new 3-year contract worth 12.825 million dollars.

#8. Thankfully, the Chicago Blackhawks have resigned Ryan Donato to a 4-year 16-million dollar contract.

#9 The Philadelphia Flyers add Todd Reirden as an assistant coach and Dylan Crawford as a video coach.

#10. Steve Spott joins Marco Sturms staff in Boston .

#11. The Philadelphia Flyers acquire Trevor Zegras from the

#12. Best of luck to defenseman Roman Josi of the Nashville Predators as he was recently diagnosed with postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS).

#13. Michael Misa should decline playing for the Chicago Blackhawks if they draft him.

#14. After the conclusion of the AHL and NHL playoffs, its extremely who the true prospect talent is.

#15. The future starting 6 defensemen should be extremely clear in Montreal, but there are apparently many who do not want the Montreal Canadiens to succeed.

#16. Are Kaiden Guhle’s injuries over, not likely.

#17. The goaltending team in 2025/2026 for the Montreal Canadiens should be Samual Montembeau and Jakub Dobes without question.

#18. Laval Rockets Goaltending team in 2025/2026 will be Jacob Fowler and who.

#19. Other than Nick Suzuki, Cole Caufield and Juraj Slafkovsky there’s nothing right now.

#20. The arrivals of Florian Xhekaj, Tyler Thorp and Luke Tuch will bring physicality, until then, nothing.

#21. Carey Price isn’t even retired yet. How could he be voted into the Hockey Hall of Fame?

#22. The Montreal Canadiens have made a cataclysmically bad trade for Noeh Dobson, that makes absolutely know since in any way.

#23. David Reinbacher, Logan Mailloux and Adam Engstrom should be on the phone to their agent telling them, they want out of Montreal.

#24. What’s Lane Hutson’s next contract looks like now?

#25. No one should be getting paid more than Nick Suzuki or Cole Caufield on the Montreal roster.

#26. The Montreal Canadiens have an even softer and less physical defense.

#27. The Noeh Dobson trade doesn’t even remotely move the team or the needle forward at all. It actually moves both backwards.