In an effort to paper over their extremely thin blue line as they wait for their prospects to mature, the San Jose Sharks have signed Dmitry Orlov to a two-year contract with an AAV of $6.5M. In addition to Nick Leddy being added off waivers and the signing of John Klingberg a couple days ago, [...]
While this may not have been the most impactful offseason of the last 10 years, there was one of the most impactful trades of the last decade with Mitch Marner heading to Vegas in a sign-and-trade from Toronto. At the time of the trade, Brennan had his thoughts on the deal here. Today, I want [...]
Following the signing of Vladislav Gavrikov (breakdown of the fantasy impact of that deal here) it seemed all-but-certain that the New York Rangers were going to be trading defenceman K’Andre Miller. As happened with Vegas and Mitch Marner, the deal ended up being a sign-and-trade, only this time to the Carolina Hurricanes in exchange for [...]
One team that had oodles of cap space – over $35M according to PuckPedia – was the Anaheim Ducks. It seemed a lock that they would go make a big signing at some point in free agency and while the available names have run thin, they did go get one of the best playmakers available [...]
The Dallas Stars fired coach Peter DeBoer after another exit in the Western Conference Final but a lot of the coaching options dried up fast. Just after free agency opened on Tuesday, the Stars announced that they had hired Glen Gulutzan to be their next head coach. For fantasy, it’s hard to imagine Gulutzan having [...]
One of the worst-kept secrets heading into free agency was that the New York Rangers seemed to be the front-runners to land (now-former) Los Angeles Kings defenceman Vladislav Gavrikov. According to Pierre LeBrun, they did exactly that and terms are a seven-year deal with a $7M AAV. This gives the Rangers a stalwart defensive defenceman [...]
One trade option that seemed to be in play for the Montreal Canadiens was prospect defenceman Logan Mailloux. With Alex Carrier added to the roster last season, Noah Dobson just being acquired via trade, and David Reinbacher (hopefully) a lineup regular in the next 1-2 years, trading Mailloux made sense. They did just that on [...]
The Edmonton Oilers kicked off their free agent frenzy not with a signing but with a trade by unloading winger Viktor Arvidsson to the Boston Bruins. According to Boston writer Scott McLaughlin, the compensation going back to the Oilers is a fifth-round pick in 2027. Arvidsson was mostly healthy this season, playing 67 games, which [...]
There was a lot of movement and signings made the day before free agency so let’s get to it. There was a lot of movement and signings made the day before free agency so let’s get to it. The big news of the day was that the rumoured sign-and-trade between Toronto and Vegas involving Mitch [...]
The Montreal Canadiens making it to the 2025 postseason was the sign that the tear-down/rebuild portion of the current era was over and it was time to start working on the roster’s weaknesses. There are still significant upgrades that need to be made, especially as far as adding veteran, impact players is concerned. The Canadiens [...]
