Eric Engels: “Just in general, as a pro scout recently told me, we in the media make a bit too much out of amount of scouts at a gm or seeing a GM show up. Said most of the time, a GM is there just because he wanted an excuse to get out of town and away from the circus and even the owner.”
Eric Engels: On average there are usually seven or eight scouts at every Montreal Canadiens game.
On the Arizona Coyotes …
Craig Morgan: The Coyotes placed defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson on the IR.