Fantasy Take – Latest NHL Moves

The Edmonton Oilers have signed Jack Campbell to a five-year contract worth $5 million per season. Campbell finished with an impressive 31-9-6 record with the Maple Leafs last season. However, that doesn’t mean his entire season went smoothly. Check out his first half/second half splits:  GPWLOTLGAASV%QUALQUAL%GSAA1st half2517521.890.9391976.020.332nd half2414443.470.888937.5-16.06 In other words, Campbell looked like an [...]

After a few years of rumoured discussions involving Pavel Zacha, the Devils finally sold a year after his peak value, as the former sixth overall pick was shipped off to Boston in a straight-up exchange for Erik Haula.   What the Bruins Get: Zacha is a big forward that can play both centre and wing, [...]

The Ottawa Senators continued their goaltender turnover as, one day after trading Matt Murray, they have acquired Cam Talbot from the Minnesota Wild for netminder Filip Gustavsson: https://twitter.com/Senators/status/1546974514373955585 Talbot, who just turned 35 years old a week ago, has one year left on his contract worth $3.66M in 2022-23, while Gustavsson is under contract for [...]

The Ottawa Senators have traded goaltender Matt Murray along with a third- and a seventh-round draft pick to the Toronto Maple Leafs for future considerations. The Senators get: Really just cap space, in order to take that rumored run at signing UFA Claude Giroux on Wednesday. The Maple Leafs get: “A proven Cup winner in [...]

The Nashville Predators sure are doing things lately, and the latest was to send Luke Kunin to the San Jose Sharks and a third-round pick. Kunin, going into his age-25 season, was a 15th overall pick in 2016 by Minnesota, and managed 41 points in 120 games with Nashville. The official announcement: https://twitter.com/PredsNHL/status/1545445862125539328 There is [...]

The Philadelphia Flyers, ladies and gentlemen. It was less than a year ago that they shipped Shayne Gostisbehere to the Arizona Coyotes, along with some draft picks, in what was a cap dump. Fast forward to July 2022 and they trade three draft picks for Tony DeAngelo, and then sign him for two years at [...]

Following the goaltending performances (or lack thereof) from Ilya Samsonov and Vitek Vanecek in 2021-22, namely in the postseason, it seemed likely they would shake up their goaltending. They did exactly that, as they traded Vanecek to the New Jersey Devils. This is how it broke down: https://twitter.com/SamanthaJPell/status/1545415121392078851 Let’s get to it. What New Jersey [...]

One of the big goalie storylines this offseason was the future of St. Louis goalie Ville Husso. He had largely outplayed Jordan Binnington all season but with the latter’s large contract, Husso was likely to move on. That’s exactly what happened as he was traded to the Detroit Red Wings: https://twitter.com/frank_seravalli/status/1545406275655196675 Husso turned around and [...]

We got a partial answer as to what the Toronto Maple Leafs will be doing with their goaltending this offseason as the team’s Cup window progresses. It appears that Jack Campbell will test free agency while the team traded Petr Mrazek and the 25th overall pick for the 38th overall pick from the Chicago Blackhawks. [...]

We had a significant trade made after the third overall selection, and both involved the Draft host team of Montreal. They went out and got a young centre they had been looking for while sending out Alexander Romanov. The two trades look as such: https://twitter.com/CanadiensMTL/status/1545195007791009794 That effectively works out to being Romanov (to NYI) and [...]