Fantasy Take – Latest NHL Moves

After being bought out by Vancouver, there was a lot of uncertainty around Oliver Ekman-Larsson’s future. Safe to say that after a 32-point regular season with the Florida Panthers that included heavy minutes early on because of the injuries to Aaron Ekblad and Brandon Montour, capped with a Stanley Cup win, his value has been [...]

The Carolina Hurricanes had a number of unrestricted free agents all coming up for the 2024 offseason and they couldn’t bring them all back. They needed to make a decision on blue liner Brett Pesce, and it seems the decision was to let him walk as Chris Johnston reported that Pesce is on his way [...]

The Seattle Kraken have signed free agent defenseman Brandon Montour to a seven-year contract with an average annual value of $7.14 million. The Kraken receive: Montour, who is fresh off a Stanley Cup championship with Florida with a team parade and celebration just one day earlier. Montour was slowed by injuries and back to a [...]

Chicago bolstered their winger depth on Monday, adding Teuvo Teravainen and Tyler Bertuzzi to the fold. https://twitter.com/TheFourthPeriod/status/1807738802699485421 https://twitter.com/frank_seravalli/status/1807807281876058533 These deals represent sizeable commitments for Chicago as Bertuzzi is on contract for four seasons and Teravainen for three. That’s significant because as I write this, none of the team’s other forwards have more than two years [...]

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. [...]