Rumors are really picking up...

* The Canadiens are looking hard to add some toughness and grit...with skill. A name that keeps coming up in my conversations with sources is Tuomo Ruutu. He won't be expensive but will be a great playoff pickup.

* For the first time in many a moon the Nashville Predators will be buyers. The Preds are a dangerous team but do lack playoff experienced leadership. Laviolette saw what Jaromir Jagr did for Claude Giroux in Philly. He is great around young players and shows how to play every shift like it is your last. He could have a major impact on several of the younger Predators including Forsberg.

*The Leafs moving out Carlyle but NOT moving out Nonis means some moves are coming. They have been talking to Colorado and LA....and now I am told you can add San Jose to that list. While Joe Thornton's name has been put out there I heard minutes after the Carlyle firing broke that San Jose was once again in the conversation...this time Patrick Marleau was being discussed. The Sharks like many of the young D in the Leafs system. Marleau has always been adverse to leaving San Jose but he is a player in desperate need of change right now. I am also told Tampa is still interested in Marleau.

We will talk all this and more on today's show...