One of the more intriguing goaltending options in an offseason where it seems musical chairs was the name of the game was Eric Comrie. Originally drafted by Winnipeg, he spent parts of eight seasons in the AHL, seven of them posting a save percentage of at least .900. He wasn’t going to get a real [...]
One of the long-rumoured signings that had to wait until Noon to be official was Claude Giroux heading home to Ottawa to play for the Senators. That was one of the first deals announced when the gong struck 12:00: https://twitter.com/PierreVLeBrun/status/1547249841868357634 It has been a busy offseason for Ottawa and Giroux joins Alex DeBrincat and Cam [...]
After a very successful run with the New York Rangers following a trade from Winnipeg, Andrew Copp did a lot to raise his value as he was heading into free agency. There were a number of teams linked to his services but the Ann Arbor, Michigan native has chosen to sign with the Detroit Red [...]
The Ottawa Senators continued their goaltender turnover as, one day after trading Matt Murray, they have acquired Cam Talbot from the Minnesota Wild for netminder Filip Gustavsson: https://twitter.com/Senators/status/1546974514373955585 Talbot, who just turned 35 years old a week ago, has one year left on his contract worth $3.66M in 2022-23, while Gustavsson is under contract for [...]
Monday was the day for teams to either qualify their restricted free agents or not. In short, if teams don’t send a qualifying offer to an RFA, that player turns into an unrestricted free agent. The Chicago Blackhawks failed to qualify Pius Suter a year ago and he went and signed with Detroit. Ondrej Kase [...]
The Nashville Predators sure are doing things lately, and the latest was to send Luke Kunin to the San Jose Sharks and a third-round pick. Kunin, going into his age-25 season, was a 15th overall pick in 2016 by Minnesota, and managed 41 points in 120 games with Nashville. The official announcement: https://twitter.com/PredsNHL/status/1545445862125539328 There is [...]
The Philadelphia Flyers, ladies and gentlemen. It was less than a year ago that they shipped Shayne Gostisbehere to the Arizona Coyotes, along with some draft picks, in what was a cap dump. Fast forward to July 2022 and they trade three draft picks for Tony DeAngelo, and then sign him for two years at [...]
Following the goaltending performances (or lack thereof) from Ilya Samsonov and Vitek Vanecek in 2021-22, namely in the postseason, it seemed likely they would shake up their goaltending. They did exactly that, as they traded Vanecek to the New Jersey Devils. This is how it broke down: https://twitter.com/SamanthaJPell/status/1545415121392078851 Let’s get to it. What New Jersey [...]
One of the big goalie storylines this offseason was the future of St. Louis goalie Ville Husso. He had largely outplayed Jordan Binnington all season but with the latter’s large contract, Husso was likely to move on. That’s exactly what happened as he was traded to the Detroit Red Wings: https://twitter.com/frank_seravalli/status/1545406275655196675 Husso turned around and [...]
We got a partial answer as to what the Toronto Maple Leafs will be doing with their goaltending this offseason as the team’s Cup window progresses. It appears that Jack Campbell will test free agency while the team traded Petr Mrazek and the 25th overall pick for the 38th overall pick from the Chicago Blackhawks. [...]
