Fantasy Impact: The Minnesota Wild trades defenseman Mike Reilly to the Montreal Canadiens for a fifth-round draft pick. The Habs get: a puck-moving defenseman who is still a bit of a project. Reilly, a college standout, has struggled since turning pro. The advanced stats show that Reilly is not a good NHL player, but [...]
Fantasy Impact: The Detroit Red Wings traded winger Tomas Tatar to the Vegas Golden Knights for first (2018), second (2019) and third-round (2021) draft picks. The Red Wings get: three great picks. Quite a bit, consider how the market has played out on Deadline Day. The Golden Knights get: an under-achieving top-six winger. [...]
Fantasy Impact: The Buffalo Sabres have traded power winger Evander Kane to the San Jose Sharks for underrated prospect forward Daniel O’Regan, a 2019 first-round draft pick (conditional - if the Sharks re-sign Kane it's a first, otherwise it's a second) plus a 2020 fourth rounder (also conditional). The Sabres get: an underrated [...]
Fantasy Impact: The St. Louis Blues traded forward Paul Stastny to the Winnipeg Jets for prospect Erik Foley, a 2018 first-round pick plus a conditional 2020 fourth-round pick (which they get only if they don’t sign Foley before late summer of 2019. The Blues get: a scoring forward with top-six upside. Read our scouting [...]
Fantasy Impact: The Chicago Blackhawks have traded gritty winger Ryan Hartman to the Nashville Predators for prospect Victor Ejdsell, and 2018 first- and fourth-round picks. The Predators get: a gritty third-line winger with a bit of scoring upside. Hartman has 25 points, but don’t forget that he had five points in the first game [...]
Afternoon updates... Two once highly-touted prospect defensemen who have been treading water for two years - Ryan Graves traded from the Rangers to the Avalanche for Chris Bigras Boston acquired hit-machine Tommy Wingels from Chicago for a fifth-round draft pick. Along with Brian Gionta, he brings nice depth to the team addressing a specific [...]
The NHL is not the only league to have a trade deadline this week. Deadlines for the majority of fantasy leagues are either today or later this week. Not only is this your last chance to make your squad better for a championship run, it’s also a good time to cheaply pick up players that [...]
Keeping Karlsson: With Erik Karlsson potentially traded from Ottawa by the time you read this, life has lost all meaning on this brand new episode of the Keeping Karlsson Hockey Podcast! On this week's show, Elan and Brian pretend to care about the impact of new scenery for a goalie in Philadelphia, a primo forward [...]
A quick rundown of Western Conference action so far... While I’m sure there will be a bounty of other deals taking place Monday that may dwarf those that came shortly before, here are some thoughts on a few trade deadline happenings and how they pertain to the Western Conference as of Sunday evening: [...]
Are Wayne Simmonds' fantasy totals beginning to decline? […]
