Fantasy Take – Latest NHL Moves

In what looks like a pre-cursor move as we close in on deadline day, the New York Rangers turned a fourth-round pick and their abundance of cap space into a top-nine scoring winger in Frank Vatrano. What the Rangers Get: The Rangers have lost Sammy Blais for the season to injury, as well as Kaapo [...]

The Colorado Avalanche have started to get the trade deadline in motion of late. They traded for Josh Manson on Monday, and on Tuesday followed that up by trading Tyson Jost. The 24-year-old has appeared in over 300 regular season games for the Avalanche but seemed to have plateaued as a bottom-6 piece, and so [...]

The Anaheim Ducks have traded right-shot defenseman Josh Manson to the Colorado Avalanche for prospect Drew Helleson and a 2023 second-round draft pick. The Ducks get: Basically, Josh Manson from nine years ago. Plus a nice draft pick. Helleson, when he bulks up (he’s still only 20) could end up being the exact size as [...]

The Toronto Maple Leafs have traded Nick Ritchie and a conditional second-round pick to Arizona for Ryan Dzingel and Ilya Lyubushkin. Ritchie, who was signed to a two-year contract with a $2.5 million cap hit this past offseason, was demoted to the AHL in early February. He had scored just two goals in 33 games [...]

The Montreal Canadiens have traded Tyler Toffoli to the Calgary Flames for prospect Emil Heineman, a first- and a fifth-round draft pick. The Flames get: a (COVID pro-rated) two-time 30-goal scorer coming off a pro-rated 38-goal season. Toffoli is only on pace for 58 points this season, but he has 17 points in his last [...]

The Edmonton Oilers did what all bad teams do: blame the coach. Dave Tippett was fired as coach of the Oilers on Thursday morning with Jay Woodcroft taking over in his place. The Oilers are, ostensibly, in their Cup window and have looked nothing short of average-to-bad for three months now. Whether the problem is [...]

The hapless Canadiens fired their head coach just months after he was at the helm for a miracle run to the Stanley Cup Final. Even at the time of his interim hiring though, there were questions about how well Ducharme would fit in a head coaching role. Everything went right last year and he was [...]

The only question of Evander Kane returning to an NHL lineup was if the NHL were to clear him from his investigation. Once he was cleared from that, he would be free to sign anywhere, and teams would be lining up. The league did clear Kane of wrongdoing and he eventually signed with the Edmonton [...]

Paul Maurice has announced his resignation as the head coach of the Winnipeg Jets. Current assistant coach Dave Lowry will take over as head coach for the rest of the season. Assuming that Maurice resigned on his own terms and was not pressured by management, credit to him for recognizing that he thought that the [...]

The Philadelphia Flyers have fired Head Coach Alain Vigneault as well as Assistant Coach Michel Therrien. Mike Yeo takes over on an interim basis. As things stand right now, Rick Tocchet is the rumored top contender to fill the role. But if that doesn’t happen, the team could do worse than Mike Yeo, who has [...]