After making some cap space by moving out Jack Drury last week, the Avalanche used most of that up by adding some scoring on the wing in Jaden Schwartz. What the Avalanche Get: The Avs take a chance on Schwartz who hasn’t paced for more than 51 points since the Covid-shortened 2019-2020 season. Schwartz is [...]
The Nashville Predators continued their re-tool by acquiring (RFA) Mavrik Bourque and Ilya Lyubushkin for 2nd Round Pick in 2027 and a 3rd Round Pick in 2028. What the Predators Get: The Predators get a young forward who they will still need to sign to a contract. Bourque can play both center and wing, and [...]
The New Jersey Devils traded Jacob Markstrom to the Florida Panthers before his latest extension had even kicked in. In it, Evan Rodrigues went back to the Devils, who needed depth at forward more than they needed another sub-par season from Markstrom. You can find Cliffy's take on the deal here. In Markstrom and recent [...]
The Buffalo Sabres and Alex Tuch were set for a breakup, which ended today with Tuch’s rights being sent to Washington, in what was technically a sign and trade. Tuch signed a contract with a $10.5 million cap hit for eight years, making him now the highest paid player on the Capitals. The details of [...]
Well what a crazy day that was yesterday in the NHL world. Give NHL GMs cap space, a weaker draft class, a barren free agent group, and it turns out that making a trade isn’t actually that difficult! We saw Bowen Byram moved for the fourth overall pick, and some secondary pieces. Jordan Kyrou [...]
The Toronto Maple Leafs have tapped Jim Hiller as the successful candidate in their search for a new Head Coach. Hiller previously coached with the LA Kings as an assistant from July 2022 to February of 2024, when he was promoted to the interim head coach role. He was fired by the Kings in March [...]
As it’s my first Ramblings since the Cup was awarded, I’ll say a quick congrats to Carolina and the many wonderful stories that team has as winners of the Stanley Cup this year. Also, congrats to any of you who rode the Carolina wave to a playoff pool win this year too! Along with many [...]
The Hurricanes turned to goaltender Brandon Bussi In game four, after Frederik Andersen was not able to be a positive difference maker in the first three games of the series. Bussi wasn’t extremely busy, but the Knights had a lot of high quality chances so he had t be sharp. He was good enough to [...]
Nikolaj Ehlers (the Canes’ game-breaker) opened the scoring early for Carolina, giving them a 1-0 lead 25 seconds in, and then a 2-0 lead 12 minutes in. The two goal-lead lasted all of a minute though, before Frederik Andersen’s shaky start came back to bite him. Neither goalie played all that well, with Anderson looking [...]
With the draft lottery in the recent past now, the world championships underway, and the Stanley Cup final nearly upon us, there aren’t many eyes already turned to July first. However, as I always try to publish in the spring, I have my final list of projected annual cap hits for each of the top [...]
