Hughes Pokes the Maple Leafs - and Knows It Landed

Kent Hughes is not exactly hiding his knife hand here, and that is part of the fun. The Canadiens GM took a shot that immediately puts Toronto back in the crosshairs, because in this market every little jab gets treated like a preseason grudge match. Hughes knows the hallway politics of this rivalry as well as anybody, and he also knows a clean line can travel faster than a bad penalty.