The Winnipeg Jets have some young restricted free agents left to sign on the blue line, namely Jacob Trouba and Josh Morrissey, but they locked up their young goaltender for six more years at $37-million total. That means Connor Hellebuyck should be in Winnipeg through his age-30 season. It’s really hard to peg goaltenders. [...]
The Chicago Blackhawks have managed to unload another big contract as they moved the three years remaining on Marian Hossa’s deal to the Arizona Coyotes. This wasn’t like others they’ve done before, or others around the league, as Hossa’s career is legitimately over. This is more like Pavel Datsyuk’s contract, which the Coyotes also [...]
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The St. Louis Blues continued their stellar off season with the signing of former Anaheim, Edmonton, and New Jersey forward Patrick Maroon to a one-year contract for $1.75-million, according to TVA Sports. Maroon had 17 goals and 43 points in 74 games with the Oilers and Devils in 2017-18. Though his best season came [...]
Though there’s obviously been a lot of digital ink spilled here and elsewhere on the signing of John Tavares, there’s a good reason for that: in the NHL, it is rare a player of his calibre isn’t on the team that drafted him into his 30s. Not in the cap era. Just look around [...]
The Montreal Canadiens were dealt a significant blow on Thursday as the team announced Shea Weber would be undergoing knee surgery which would keep him off the ice for 5-6 months. Best guess right now is to not expect him in the lineup until Christmas. While the Subban-Weber trade has been debated since it [...]
Though they haven’t made the big splash that other teams have this off season, Columbus is doing a good job of solidifying their forward depth. First it was Riley Nash, and then Thursday afternoon came the signing of free agent winger Anthony Duclair. It’s a one-year deal for $650K as reported by Aaron Portzline [...]
Both the Draft and Free Agency are behind us which means there really isn’t a whole lot left to do this offseason. There is still the possibility of offer sheets but let’s face it, NHL general managers are more concerned with getting a Christmas card from a rival than improving their own team. Were [...]
Following his departure from the Sabres, which is a kind way of saying they didn’t want him back, it seemed inevitable that Robin Lehner would find a job somewhere. On Tuesday night, he signed a one-year deal with the New York Islanders with a cap hit of $1.5-million. The Islanders appear set to go [...]
It was always a near-certainty that Joe Thornton would return to the Sharks on a similar deal as last year and he signed on of those Monday afternoon. It’s just a one-year deal with a $5-million cap hit. Thornton, now 39 years old, is coming off significant knee problems in each of the last two [...]
