The Seattle Kraken have signed free agent defenseman Brandon Montour to a seven-year contract with an average annual value of $7.14 million. The Kraken receive: Montour, who is fresh off a Stanley Cup championship with Florida with a team parade and celebration just one day earlier. Montour was slowed by injuries and back to a [...]
The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed Jake Guentzel to a seven-year contract with an average annual value of $9 million. The Lightning had cleared the necessary cap space to sign Guentzel by trading both Mikhail Sergachev ($8.5 mil AAV) and Tanner Jeannot ($2.665 AAV) while allowing Steven Stamkos to go to free agency. They had [...]
Day 2 of the draft took place on Saturday, which featured Rounds 2-7. For a full look at all the picks, go to NHL.com. - The rumored Jeff Skinner buyout was finally announced on Saturday, as the Sabres will be buying out the remaining three years of his contract. Skinner’s output from last season (46 [...]
The Los Angeles Kings have acquired forward Tanner Jeannot from the Tampa Bay Lightning for the 118th overall pick in this year’s draft (Jan Golicic) and a 2025 second-round pick. What Los Angeles Receives Jeannot, a banger extraordinaire, who was originally acquired by Tampa Bay from Nashville for five draft picks and Cal Foote. Jeannot [...]
The Utah Hockey Club made a splash on Day 2 of the draft with two separate trades. In the first trade, Utah acquired Mikhail Sergachev from the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for J.J. Moser, Conor Geekie, a 2024 seventh-round pick, and a 2025 second-round pick. In the second trade, Utah acquired John Marino from [...]
Draft day at the Sphere in Las Vegas was something that the NHL had never seen before. For the last in-person draft, the NHL sure went out with a bang. Other professional leagues should consider this setting if the NHL won’t return there. https://twitter.com/BR_OpenIce/status/1806822212466266145 https://twitter.com/JoePompliano/status/1806833674173714712 https://twitter.com/pharling/status/1806843163405177162 As expected, the Sharks took Macklin Celebrini of Boston [...]
The Kings have signed Alex Turcotte to a three-year, $2.325 million contract. The fifth overall pick in 2019, Turcotte has played fewer NHL games (32) than all the players drafted from 1 to 18 that year. He played 20 of those games in 2023-24, scoring four points in 20 games. His AHL scoring rate was [...]
Can the Edmonton Oilers complete an improbable comeback in the Stanley Cup Final? We will find out on Monday evening in Game 7. I’ll get to the individual player stats shortly, but let’s take a look at the list of teams that have tied an NHL playoff series after being down 3-0. Not something that [...]
Well, we have a Stanley Cup Final series now. There’s no way the Panthers wanted to make the long trek back to Edmonton for another crack at winning the cup. The good news for Florida is that at least they still have two more cracks at it. The bad news is that if they can’t [...]
The Edmonton Oilers staved off elimination in the most convincing possible way in an 8-1 rout of the Florida Panthers in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final. Call it the magic of Shania Twain, who rocked the Edmonton crowd before the game. Connor McDavid was finally able to score his first goal of the [...]
