or something they didn't want, and anything that forces the player to constantly reload their saves isn't very fun gameplay.



- On dialogue:

- Patrick Weekes was talking about the reaction to Hawke and the way dialogue in DA2 was affected by previous things the player had said in the conversation. He said some players found this confusing and that they were looking at it for DAI.

- Patrick also said (unprompted) that they're aware of the backlash against ME3's 'autodialogue'

- People were also occasionally frustrated by dialogue paraphrases in DA2 (where the dialogue option they picked didn't really sound like what Hawke actually said), Patrick and Karin Weekes had an interesting and entertaining conversation about the difficulty of paraphrasing. It's an issue that they're kept in mind when developing DAI.



-taking over in 2012.

These are house cleaning trades. None advanced the team towards the cup.

Draft Picks

Alex Galchenyuk was Mr. Bergevin’s 1st pick. He’s having a break through season after years of being forced to play wing instead of Centre. None of his other picks that year have panned out. (Collberg, Thrower, Bozon, Vail, Hudon, and Nystrom)

Next Season

March 2014 – Sebastian Collberg and a 2nd round pick #57 (Johnathan MacLeod – Tampa Bay) in 2014 traded to New York Islanders for Thomas Vanek and a 5th round pick #125 (Nikolas Koberstein) in 2014. The draft picks were conditional on Montreal making the playoffs, which they did.

Again, none of these trades led towards Lord Stanley’s Cup. Most of the players were very short term rentals. The Vanek trade deserves some