Fantasy Take – Latest NHL Moves

The rumours had been swirling basically all year that Seth Jones would be traded and that happened about an hour before the 2021 NHL Entry Draft. As had been rumoured, the Chicago Blackhawks have acquired the 26-year-old blue liner and subsequently extended him for seven years. It really took me a minute to get my [...]

In a trade that looks more like something you’d see in a dynasty fantasy league than between two NHL teams, the Vancouver Canucks have acquired Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Conor Garland from the Arizona Coyotes for Jay Beagle, Loui Eriksson, Antoine Roussel, the ninth overall pick in the 2021 NHL Draft (Dylan Guenther), a second-rounder next [...]

This one kind of hits home because as a fantasy analyst, there are players we have to believe in. There are players that come along and the analyst identifies something they like about the player and start of sort to root for them. Bias can set in here so it’s a very tricky path to [...]

Following the trade of Shayne Gostisbehere, it seemed as if Philadelphia was clearing cap space to make another splash on the back-end. This offseason is moving so fast that it’s easy to forget that they’ve already picked up Ryan Ellis from Nashville. Well, they did indeed add another defenceman, and it came way out of [...]

“The desert around their walls is called the Garden of Bones. Every time the Qartheen shut their gates, the garden grows.” I thought of that quote from the second season of the Game of Thrones when I found out that Shayne Gostisbehere had been traded to Arizona. Here are the particulars: https://twitter.com/CraigSMorgan/status/1418265130433798150 The Flyers paid [...]

There are always some trades that come out of left field and take the hockey world by surprise. This trade would certainly qualify, as Alex Nedeljkovic, the goalie who looked like the future in Carolina, was shipped off to Detroit. The return was as follows: https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/1418261341928935427 My initial reaction was just shock. Nedeljkovic is a [...]

The Toronto Maple Leafs trade (back) prospect forward Filip Hallander and a seventh-round draft pick to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for forward Jared McCann. The Leafs get: a steadily improving two-way forward who is only now entering his prime. This trade was made just prior to the expansion draft trade deadline so one would [...]

The San Jose Sharks have acquired goalie Adin Hill and a 2022 seventh-round pick from the Arizona Coyotes for goalie Josef Korenar and a 2022 second-round pick. In Hill, the Sharks acquire a goalie who has been on the verge of becoming an NHLer for the past few seasons as an injury replacement to Darcy [...]

In a three-team blockbuster, the Vegas Golden Knights took advantage of their sideline status from the expansion draft, while the Predators and the Flyers firmed up their positions. https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/1416477531906134022 Nashville downgraded Ryan Ellis on defence to Philippe Myers, while adding a young centre in need of a new home. They then flipped that centre for [...]

The Detroit Red Wings have acquired defenseman Nick Leddy from the New York Islanders for forward Richard Panik and a second-round pick. Leddy was the top-scoring defenseman on the Islanders last season with 31 points in 56 games. This was his best point-per-game output (0.55 PTS/GP) of the last four seasons. He also led all [...]