Chris Tanev is great.
The two defenceman are on-ice partners and off-ice foes.
“He’s really smart. I told him we’ve got to get a timer because he sees six steps ahead. He thinks and looks at it for so long. I say we get him a 50-second timer.” “500 hard games for him. That’s what he does, he always plays hard, always puts his body on the line,” he said.“I think just because of who he is as a player as a person. He’s just a great team guy on and off the ice. You need those guys, you can’t have enough of those guys on your team.
There are creative ways to make some cap space when he returns, but it’s also all contingent on the return dates for Josh Leivo and Tyler Motte. Both could be shuffled to LTIR when Ferland returns, which would leave, in their absence about $2 million in cap space, but even then you’re still going to have to make some roster decisions at some point, assuming there’s not another injury.
The firing of Dan Palango seemed to be a bit of a line in the sand as well. It’s understood that Palango, a holdover from the Gillis era, had long played a prominent role in the department.
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