Fantasy Take – Latest NHL Moves

The Los Angeles Kings have signed goalie Cam Talbot to a one-year contract. Talbot finished 2022-23 with a 2.93 GAA and .898 SV% in 36 games. He was expected to be the starter in Ottawa after being traded there from Minnesota last offseason. However, injuries got in the way, which have to be a concern [...]

Nashville has had a wild week, trading Ryan Johansen while retaining salary and then buying out Matt Duchene. They were clearing cap space for something and it appears to be a former division rival that is coming to Tennessee to help turn the team around: https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/1675175019951824896 It is worth $4.5M a season for each of [...]

The New York Rangers have signed forward Blake Wheeler to a one-year contract worth $800,000. Wheeler had just cleared waivers and had his contract bought out by the Jets, so he needed very little time to find a new home. The fact that Wheeler signed for under $1 million shows that he is targeting the [...]

Like many teams this offseason, the cap crunch from the COVID seasons was still in effect for the Edmonton Oilers. It meant that they would have to ship out some players to open the space necessary to possibly sign their replacements, but most certainly to extend Evan Bouchard’s contract. The casualties ended up being a [...]

The New York Islanders were facing another cap crunch and it was just a matter of who would get moved. They ended up being able to shed the Josh Bailey contract, which is a good thing for them considering his falling out of the lineup. Bailey is on the move, and he may have a [...]

Vegas’ usual brutal offseason begins with the trade of Reilly Smith, one of the original “misfits”. It’s good that Smith got to be a part of the winning team in Vegas this year, but the perils of the job mean that his contract was deemed expendable by the team. Meanwhile, the Penguins are trying to [...]

The Tampa Bay Lightning were likely to lose a few players again, and they began their annual summer purge today with Ross Colton being shipped out to the Avalanche. Colton comes into a spot recently vacated by the trade of Alex Newhook, and with a few other players departing via free agency, the Avalanche have [...]

The exodus from Calgary has begun as there have been a number of rumoured trade requests, cap crunches, or difficulties with contract extensions from the likes of Mikael Backlund, Elias Lindholm, and Tyler Toffoli, to name a few. There has been a lot of upheaval in Calgary that started a year ago with the huge [...]

One of the big storylines of the 2023 NHL offseason is the Winnipeg Jets and what they would do with their stars. It seems as if they are ready to unload a bevy of players, a few of them being core pieces for the last few or even several years, to try and turn the [...]

The Montreal Canadiens have been tied to trade talks with Pierre-Luc Dubois for some time now, but the latest rumours are pointing to a trade between Winninpeg and Los Angeles sooner rather than later. It appears that this made the Canadiens pivot and look for help elsewhere. Perhaps they took inspiration from the re-emergence of [...]