Once Barry Trotz resigned from head coaching duties of the Washington Capitals, the assumption was that associate coach Todd Reirden would take over. This finally came to pass on Friday afternoon as Washington named Reirden as the team’s new head coach. Reirden has been on the Capitals coaching staff since 2014, as outlined in [...]
We are just a couple of days away from one of the busiest days in the NHL schedule, Free Agent Frenzy. It’s a great day for many hockey fans to relax, fire up the barbecue, and find out about how their team’s fortunes may change for the upcoming season and beyond. If you’re an [...]
The Pittsburgh Penguins cleared some cap space by making a trade with Buffalo on Wednesday. Forward Conor Sheary and defenceman Matt Hunwick were sent to the Sabres in return for a conditional 2019 fourth-round pick. This trade leaves the Penguins with about $8.1-million or so in cap space with only Jamie Oleksiak left to [...]
It was quite the wild weekend at the Draft. We didn’t have nearly the action on Friday in terms of trades that we thought we would, but we did have a lot of movement on draft boards I don’t think (m)any saw coming. Saturday was a different story, though. In case you missed anything, I’m [...]
We kept hearing chatter all day about a bunch of trades that were supposed to be in the works and nothing came to fruition. Just as the Entry Draft was about to start, we got our first trade of the day: the Colorado Avalanche traded a second-round pick this year (47th overall) to the [...]
Happy Draft day! For a lot of people, this is the culmination of months and sometimes years of work. They don’t just start following a player in his draft year, it starts years prior. It takes hundreds of hours of scouting, reading, reviewing game notes, creating spreadsheets and databases, and more. Congratulations to all those, [...]
Following his departure from the Washington Capitals, one of the immediate straight lines drawn was for Barry Trotz to be heading to the New York Islanders. They had a vacancy and presumably the desire to bring in a coach with a winning pedigree to not only give the fans some hope but to convince a [...]
The NHL Awards took place on Wednesday night and as with most NHL awards shows, there were quite a few bad bits of comedy along with some feel-good stories mixed in. They started the show with a magic act and then a ventriloquist. I wish I was kidding. Anyway, the winners are… Ted Lindsay Award [...]
It had been some time now that Ottawa was looking to ship out some salary. When looking at the roster, Mike Hoffman’s was a name that came up frequently for the team to be able to dump some money. Following the allegations of Hoffman’s fiancée cyber-bullying Melinda Karlsson after the loss of her child, [...]
The big news from Monday was that the current head coach for the current Stanley Cup champions would become the former head coach for the current Stanley Cup champions. In the afternoon, Washington announced that Barry Trotz would be resigning from the club. According Isabelle Khurshudyan of the Washington Post, Trotz had a clause in [...]
