Fantasy Take – Latest NHL Moves

The Vegas Golden Knights have acquired forward Ivan Barbashev from the St. Louis Blues for prospect Zach Dean. The Blues continue to clean house, as Vladimir Tarasenko, Ryan O’Reilly, and now Barbashev have been traded away. The 27-year-old Barbashev has 29 points (10 G, 19 A) in 59 games this season. His pace is down [...]

The Winnipeg Jets have acquired winger Nino Niederreiter from the Nashville Predators for a second-round pick in the 2024 draft. In his first season with the Predators, Niederreiter has 18 goals and 10 assists (28 points) in 56 games, including four goals in his last three games. He has one more season after this one [...]

The Vancouver Canucks have acquired forward Vitali Kravtsov from the New York Rangers for forward Will Lockwood and a 2026 seventh-round pick. Kravtsov was the ninth-overall pick in the 2018 draft, so he arrives on the Canucks with some pedigree. Whether it’s because of lack of opportunity or unhappiness about his situation with the Rangers, [...]

The St. Louis Blues have claimed right wing Kasperi Kapanen off waivers from the Pittsburgh Penguins. Kapanen has been scoring below a 0.5 PT/GP pace both this season and last. However, he finished with 30 points in 40 games during the shortened 2020-21 season, so he still provides some scoring upside. Kapanen and his $3.2 [...]

It was almost a shock at how fast things moved. As of Thursday afternoon, the Washington Capitals were on a slide with two wins in their previous seven games, but Alex Ovechkin was returning and they were just two points out of a playoff position. Then just after 5 PM ET, Pierre LeBrun tweeted that [...]

The Toronto Maple Leafs have acquired Ryan O'Reilly and Noel Acciari from the St. Louis Blues for Mikhail Abramov, Adam Gaudette, a first-round pick in 2023, a third-round pick in 2023 (from Ottawa) and a second-round pick in 2024. St. Louis is retaining 50% of O'Reilly's salary, while Minnesota is taking another 25% of O'Reilly's [...]

There are a number of significant trade bait candidates for this year’s deadline. We saw Bo Horvat get traded last week to the New York Islanders and that seems to have kicked off trade season. The next big domino to fall is St. Louis winger Vladimir Tarasenko, who is headed to the New York Rangers: [...]

The Vancouver Canucks have traded Bo Horvat to the New York Islanders for Anthony Beauvillier, Aatu Raty and a 2023 first-round draft pick. The Canucks get: an underachieving forward who has been in the league for seven years – yet he’s still only 25. Beauvillier has at times been used on a shutdown line, while [...]

The Vancouver Canucks have dismissed popular head coach Bruce Boudreau and assistant coach Trent Cull. Rick Tocchet has been named the new head coach, Adam Foote a new assistant coach, and Sergei Gonchar the new defensive development coach. In what has been the league’s worst-kept secret and worst-handled situation with a head coach in quite [...]

Toronto and Arizona have swapped depth skaters to fill some organizational needs. https://twitter.com/CraigSMorgan/status/1595492392106590208 What the Coyotes Get: Size and depth for their AHL team, and a possible future depth forward, for a defenceman that they were going to lose on waivers anyways. Curtis Douglas is not a player that needs to be on the fantasy [...]