Fantasy Take – Latest NHL Moves

The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed Jake Guentzel to a seven-year contract with an average annual value of $9 million. The Lightning had cleared the necessary cap space to sign Guentzel by trading both Mikhail Sergachev ($8.5 mil AAV) and Tanner Jeannot ($2.665 AAV) while allowing Steven Stamkos to go to free agency. They had [...]

While the draft was going on in Vegas’ Sphere, the Golden Knights moved a few players around. No wait, I can give you a better spherical pun. While the draft was going on in Vegas’ Sphere, the Golden Knights kept the trade ball rolling. Better? No? Okay, sorry about that. My pun problem is worse [...]

The Los Angeles Kings have acquired forward Tanner Jeannot from the Tampa Bay Lightning for the 118th overall pick in this year’s draft (Jan Golicic) and a 2025 second-round pick. What Los Angeles Receives Jeannot, a banger extraordinaire, who was originally acquired by Tampa Bay from Nashville for five draft picks and Cal Foote. Jeannot [...]

The Utah Hockey Club made a splash on Day 2 of the draft with two separate trades. In the first trade, Utah acquired Mikhail Sergachev from the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for J.J. Moser, Conor Geekie, a 2024 seventh-round pick, and a 2025 second-round pick. In the second trade, Utah acquired John Marino from [...]

The Washington Capitals continue to improve their NHL roster in an attempt to get Alex Ovechkin to the all-time goals record, this time by acquiring Calgary Flames forward Andrew Mangiapane. Going back to the Flames was a second-round pick, and there was no salary retained so this is a straight swap of player-for-pick: https://twitter.com/reporterchris/status/1806480939872321548 Let’s [...]

Vancouver signed Teddy Blueger earlier on Thursday and then late Thursday night made a trade that helps them clear some cap space. The Canucks sent winger Ilya Mikheyev to the Chicago Blackhawks, along with the rights to Sam Lafferty and a second round pick in 2027 for a fourth round pick in 2027 in return. [...]

Stanley Cup Final. Game 7. Fans watching with bated breath as puck drop approaches. All eyes are on Edmonton and Florida, on Linus Ullmark and Joonas Korpisalo – I mean Stuart Skinner and Sergei Bobrovsky. Minutes before the biggest game in recent memory, Boston and Ottawa decided to steal the spotlight with one of the [...]

Unlike the Jacob Markstrom to New Jersey trade that had been teased for months if not a year, this bombshell came out of nowhere.   https://twitter.com/PierreVLeBrun/status/1803502883041898781 The Capitals are taking on some huge term, banking on Pierre-Luc Dubois to rebound, meanwhile the Kings fix their hole in net while shedding immediate salary, but also adding [...]

The New Jersey Devils acquired Jacob Markstrom (salary 31.25% retained), and he will now form a tandem next year with Jake Allen. This is a /significant/ improvement over the options from last season. The return to the Calgary Flames was Kevin Bahl and a top-10 protected 2025 1st Round Pick. https://twitter.com/NHL/status/1803465819923366258 This furthers Calgary’s rebuild/reset with [...]

The San Jose Sharks fired head coach David Quinn a week after their regular season finished. What they expected from him given the roster they have is unclear, but it is clear they wanted to go in a different direction with their bench boss and they have made their choice in former Charlotte Checkers (AHL) [...]