Rick Stephens

That went to Quinton Byfield, Joel Armia, and others.

And down the middle, Quinton Byfield has taken over, Alex LaFerriere—

Ken Holland said that they wanted to bring in some scoring and being able to free up all of that cap room.

Now they'll be able to go and do that and they're not giving up anything because he wasn't providing any offense.

His defensive role is covered by others.

So

they were happy to move on from Phil Deneau and find a willing partner like Kent Hughes.

Yeah, and once he does come into the lineup, you can understand what...

Kent Hughes is looking at.

Kent Hughes says that he hopes that Deneau can be re-energized.

His quote was, he's not forgotten how to play hockey.

The Canadians, with respect to their centers, they only have one left shot center in Valeno.

Deneau would be their second.

And, you know...

It was funny during the press conference, Hughes said, we've got a lot of right-handed players.

All summer, I kept telling the players, all left-handed players, to practice their face-offs.

And he said, Slough told me he's better than everyone except Jake Evans overall.

But he said, that's in practice, not in games.

And everybody laughed.

So Deneau should help with the penalty kill.