Fantasy Take – Latest NHL Moves

The Colorado Avalanche have signed versatile forward Evan Rodrigues to a one-year contract worth $2M. The Avs get: a solid middle-sixer who can slot in at any forward position. Rodrigues truly flourished with the Penguins last season when both Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin were injured. Once they returned, the dynamic changed. And even with [...]

There were a handful of notable names still on the free agency board once Nazem Kadri was signed, among them Paul Stastny, P.K. Subban, and Phil Kessel. In a bit of serendipity, Stastny was signed just hours after I posted a Ramblings discussing what these guys could bring to the fantasy game when (if) whey [...]

The Carolina Hurricanes have continued their offseason shopping by adding another centre to their forward mix. Vincent Trocheck left the organization and that left them with Jordan Staal and Jesperi Kotkaniemi as their middle-6 pivots. It could work but they clearly felt they needed some insurance. They got that insurance in the form of Paul [...]

With the signing of Nazem Kadri, Calgary would need to make another deal to open the cap space necessary to make it work. That came in the form of the Flames trading centre Sean Monahan to the Montreal Canadiens, along with a conditional first-round pick in 2025, for futures: https://twitter.com/NHLFlames/status/1560382496860033025 The three-time 30-goal scorer had [...]

The one major domino left to fall in the 2022 NHL offseason was where unrestricted free agent Nazem Kadri would land. There were lots of rumours that he would be going to play for the New York Islanders, but that is not the team that signed him. It ended up being the team that yours [...]

The Anaheim Ducks have signed John Klingberg to a one-year contract believed to be worth $7 million. Klingberg has spent his entire eight-year career with the Dallas Stars, topping out at 67 points in 2017-18. More recently, he finished with 47 points in 74 games in 2021-22. Over his past seven seasons, Klingberg has finished [...]

The Calgary Flames traded Matthew Tkachuk to the Florida Panthers in exchange for the NHL’s second leading scorer (tied) Jonathan Huberdeau, plus defenseman Mackenzie Weegar, prospect forward Cole Schwindt, and a first-round draft pick. The Flames get: the scoring to replace the recent loss of Johnny Gaudreau. And funny enough, they replace him with the [...]

There was news on Friday afternoon that Columbus had extended Patrik Laine for four years with an average annual value of $8.7M. That put the Blue Jackets in excess of $6M over the cap and while being over the cap is fine in the offseason, it’s often better to take care of the trades necessary [...]

One of the more notable free agents left on the board signed on with a new team on Thursday morning. Nino Niederreiter, the recent Carolina Hurricane winger, latched onto Nashville for a two-year deal carrying an average annual value of $4M. Here is the breaking news from Elliotte Friedman: https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/1550133872070987776 Let’s get to what this [...]

The Montreal Canadiens have traded defenseman Jeff Petry and forward Ryan Poehling to the Pittsburgh Penguins for Mike Matheson and a 2023 fourth-round pick. This is the second trade involving defensemen that the Penguins made on Saturday, as they also sent John Marino to New Jersey for Ty Smith and a 2023 third-round pick earlier [...]