Michael Kesselring was a player that you probably didn’t know much about before the season, but he seems to be doing all right for himself. On Saturday, Kesselring registered the first-ever Gordie Howe hat trick in Utah Hockey Club history. He is now up to 14 points in 26 games, trailing only Mikhail Sergachev in [...]
As has been rumored since the summer, Jacob Trouba was finally moved out of New York. Trouba was traded to Anaheim for Urho Vaakanainen and a conditional 2025 fourth-round pick. Read the Fantasy Take here. That wasn’t it for Rangers transactions on Friday, as they signed Igor Shesterkin to an eight-year extension worth $11.5 million [...]
The New York Rangers have traded defenseman Jacob Trouba to the Anaheim Ducks for defenseman Urho Vaakanainen and a conditional fourth-round draft pick in 2025. The Ducks receive: Trouba, who the Rangers have been trying to unload since the summer. The Rangers’ recent 1-6-0 record expedited the trade, and they were even reportedly considering waivers [...]
The Chicago Blackhawks fired head coach Luke Richardson on Thursday, replacing him with Anders Sorensen as interim coach for the remainder of the season. Expected to improve at least slightly this season, the Blackhawks currently hold both the league’s lowest point total (18) and the league’s lowest winning percentage (.346) with an 8-16-2 record. The [...]
In the second game of back-to-backs, the Rangers ended their five-game losing streak. Kaapo Kakko scored a power-play goal with only 24 seconds remaining to secure a 4-3 win over Montreal on Saturday. Artemi Panarin and Mika Zibanejad each scored a goal and added an assist, both breaking mini-slumps in the process. Zibanejad finished [...]
The Columbus Blue Jackets have traded defenseman David Jiricek and a 2025 5th round pick to the Minnesota Wild for defenseman Daemon Hunt, a 2025 conditional 1st round pick, a 2027 2nd round pick, a 2026 3rd round pick, and a 2026 4th round pick. The Wild receive: Jiricek, the sixth overall pick in the [...]
The Nashville Predators have traded goalie Scott Wedgewood to the Colorado Avalanche for Justus Annunen and a sixth-round pick. A goaltending shakeup was needed in Colorado, which has the third-worst team goals-against average in the league (3.71 GA/GP). Alexandar Georgiev has not been a reliable starter for a team that has Stanley Cup hopes, and [...]
LOTS of early Black Friday hockey, so I won’t waste your time with a lengthy intro. The knives are out on the Rangers, who have now lost five consecutive games. (Comparing them to the NFL Giants and Jets? Nasty!) Along with being out of the lineup due to an upper-body injury, Chris Kreider is [...]
The Canucks’ injury situation might be getting worse before it gets better. According to multiple reports, Filip Hronek is expected to be out for a while after being injured late in Wednesday’s game against Pittsburgh. Hronek is valuable to the Canucks as Quinn Hughes’s partner on the top pair and a mainstay on the second [...]
The St. Louis Blues have fired head coach Drew Bannister and replaced him with Jim Montgomery. Earlier this week, Montgomery was let go as the head coach of the Boston Bruins, so he was not out of work for very long. In spite of a 120-41-23 in 2+ seasons with the Bruins, Montgomery could not [...]
