Friday provided us with one significant deal with Brandon Hagel heading to the Tampa Bay Lightning. Read more about the full trade and its fantasy impact.

Josh Norris scored the game-winning goal on the power play for the Senators on Friday, reaching 25 goals for the first time in his career. Not only that, but he's also the first Senator in three years to reach that total, clearly emerging as a goal-scoring threat. Only four players (Chris Kreider, Leon Draisaitl, Auston Matthews, David Pastrnak) currently have more power-play goals than Norris's 12 PPG (although several other players are tied with Norris). He's also the first Senator to reach 12 power-play goals since Mike Hoffman in 2016-17.

As I mentioned yesterday, Erik Brannstrom is expected to take a big chunk of Thomas Chabot's minutes and power-play time. Sure enough, Brannstrom assisted on Norris's power-play goal while logging nearly 23 minutes and first-unit power-play time. His assist broke a 10-game point drought. Brannstrom is rostered in just 1 percent of Yahoo leagues (31% in Fantrax), so there's a real ground-floor opportunity here in single-season leagues.

Nick Paul was a healthy scratch for Ottawa on Friday, which means that he could be on the move.

With Claude Giroux at home waiting for a trade, Mike Yeo played the hell out of Kevin Hayes on Friday. The tall center played a season-high 22 minutes, which included first-unit power-play time and first-unit penalty killing. Hayes has a contract that is virtually untradable (over $7 million cap hit for four more seasons), so at this point the only way he doesn't play is if the scoring completely dries up. Obviously you'll find much better scorers at the center position, but he could make a bit of hay while the Flyers play out the string.  

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Seth Jarvis's two goals on Friday were his first since January 21. In other words, he had gone 18 games without a goal. Jarvis had only recorded three assists during that time, so he had hit a rookie wall while falling out of the Calder Trophy race. A recent healthy scratch, Jarvis was moved onto a line with Andrei Svechnikov and Vincent Trocheck and it seemed to pay off. He now sits at 10 goals in 47 games.

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Whoops! What a tough way for Jacob Markstrom to lose what would have been his 10^th shutout of the season.

Tage Thompson OTW 1-0 #LetsGoBuffalo #Flames pic.twitter.com/fPp3fK446Y

— Buffalo Hockey moments (@SabresPlays) March 19, 2022

At the other end, Dustin Tokarski stopped all 24 shots he faced to earn his first shutout since (flipping a bunch of pages) the 2013-14 season, when he played for Montreal. Tokarski has been taking the odd star from Craig Anderson recently, so perhaps he will cut into Anderson's workload a little more after this effort. Especially with saves such as this one.

Tokarski save on Jarnkrok 👀 #LetsGoBuffalo #Flames pic.twitter.com/ByNpMfTZSg

— Buffalo Hockey moments (@SabresPlays) March 19, 2022

On a side note, I'm glad these two teams decided to make things right and return to their original jerseys.

Calle Jarnkrok made his Flames debut on Friday, skating 12:37 on a line with Tyler Toffoli and Andrew Mangiapane.

Fantasy Take: Flames Acquire Jarnkrok

Not only is Darryl Sutter a comedian, but he’s also a doctor.

Sutter was angriest after the game at the fact it took 33 minutes to stitch up Erik Gudbranson.
"I could have done it in 5 mins. I sew horses and cows in ten minutes"

— Eric Francis (@EricFrancis) March 19, 2022

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Charlie Coyle recorded three helpers on Friday. That gives him nine points over his past six games. Coyle logged 19 minutes on Friday and over 20 minutes on Wednesday, so he's benefitting from a bump in icetime, even if it doesn't result in minutes with any of the Bruins' top liners.

With Patrice Bergeron out of the lineup, Jack Studnicka got to center Brad Marchand and Jake DeBrusk. Studnicka assisted on Marchand's second-period goal. Something to keep an eye on if Bergeron misses more time.

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It looked like déjà vu, and not in a good way. However, it could have been worse. Aaron Ekblad had to be helped off the ice with a leg injury in the first period on Friday. You may remember Ekblad's season ending early last season after he fractured his leg, but it doesn't sound like anything nearly that serious, according to Andrew Brunette. The Panthers have already acquired Ben Chiarot, but he certainly doesn't provide everything that Ekblad does if the latter has to miss games.

By the way, Chiarot did not make his Panthers debut on Friday, as he is still dealing with immigration issues. The Panthers don't play again until Thursday when they start a three-game set in eastern Canada, so expect to see him then.

Mackenzie Weegar has been underutilized on the power play in spite of producing fantasy-worthy numbers both this season and last. However, Weegar was finally on the first-unit power play because of the Ekblad injury. In spite of finally receiving the plum opportunity, Weegar failed to record a point for the sixth consecutive game. He's already a stat stuffer in multicategory leagues, so his value could shoot through the roof with any time on PP1.

Spencer Knight recorded his first NHL shutout, a 17-save win over the Ducks. Knight started for the second consecutive night and four consecutive games overall, so it appears Sergei Bobrovsky is still dealing with some sort of illness. Knight has improved his season numbers with a 1.96 GAA and .929 SV% over those four games in the past six days. Unless Bobrovsky is dealing with something more serious, he should be back starting again next week.

In fact, Bob served as the backup on Friday, which might explain why Yahoo hasn't given him day-to-day status on his player profile. For those not familiar, the DTD status allows a player to be moved to IR+, which is used for injured players who are not placed on IR by their teams. If you don't have IR+, ask your commissioner to add it next season. It saves a ton of frustration from having to use a bench spot on an injured player.

Jonathan Huberdeau scored a pair of goals on Friday, which places him just one point behind Connor McDavid in the Art Ross scoring race. Whether you think he is Hart Trophy deserving or not, he has taken his game to the next level this season.

Radko Gudas is known for hits, but over a two-day period he has been extra busy. Gudas delivered nine hits on Friday to follow-up on his 12-hit game on Thursday. No points in his last 11 games, but that's not why he's on your roster. Gudas is the runaway league leader in that category with 279 hits. He's the very definition of a one-category wonder.

Hampus Lindholm and Rickard Rakell were both scratched on Friday. Lindholm is expected to be traded; however, Rakell is still out with an injury.

Jamie Drysdale, who was a healthy scratch last Saturday, was on the top pair with Cam Fowler on Friday. He shouldn't be a healthy scratch any longer with Josh Manson gone and Lindholm likely soon to follow.

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With Gabriel Landeskog on the shelf for a while, Valeri Nichushkin is filling in nicely on the top line with Nathan MacKinnon and Mikko Rantanen. Nichushkin scored a pair of goals on Friday, giving him goals in back-to-back games. In the three games that Landeskog has been out of the lineup, Nichushkin has taken 11 shots – an average of nearly four per game. Nichushkin has also now set a new career high in points (35), passing his previous career-best 34 points from his 2013-14 rookie season in Dallas.

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Finally, this is not from the NHL, but it is some kind of skating.

ANTONIO STRANGES. ON REPEAT.

cc @DallasStars @AntonioStrange7 | #TexasHockey pic.twitter.com/Sl5wfaymqx

— London Knights (@LondonKnights) March 19, 2022

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