Fantasy Take – Latest NHL Moves

Fantasy Impact: The Toronto Maple Leafs signed winger Wayne Simmonds to a one-year contract worth $1.5 million. The Leafs get: a power forward on the tail-end of a productive fantasy hockey career. Although that tail-end has lasted for several years now. But from 2013 to 2016 there was no more coveted a power forward in [...]

Ever since Bryan Little’s injuries cropped up a few years ago, the Jets have long been in need of a second-line centre. They traded for Kevin Hayes at the deadline in 2019, and traded for Cody Eakin in 2020. They also added Stastny a couple years ago and he was wonderful for them. Well, the [...]

Even buyouts have fantasy implications, and there have been a few of them in this offseason. Let’s examine what the important ones could mean to the player and the team that decided to part with their contract.   Kyle Turris Perhaps surprisingly, the Predators decided that Turris producing at half a point per game or [...]

The Los Angeles Kings have done a marvelous job replenishing their system following their glory years some five years ago or so. Kupari, Fagemo, Vilardi, Turcotte, Kaliyev, and now Byfield and Grans. That is a loaded depth chart. The Kings added to their prospect depth by trading a second-round pick to the New York Rangers [...]

The Minnesota Wild trade forward Luke Kunin and the 101st overall draft pick to the Nashville Predators for forward Nick Bonino, the 37th overall draft pick and the 70th overall draft pick. The Wild get: A 32-year-old coming off his best season in five years. Nashville essentially sold high here on Bonino, who is a [...]

The Pittsburgh Penguins traded goaltender Matt Murray to the Ottawa Senators for Jonathan Gruden and the 52nd overall draft pick. The Senators get: Their starting goalie. Murray will be their starting goaltender of the future if he can stay healthy this season. Murray will be their stopgap solution if he gets hurt – yet again [...]

It had been rumoured for a while that Montreal was looking to move Max Domi, and it had been rumoured for a while that Montreal was interested in RFA winger Josh Anderson out of Columbus. All those rumours came to fruition as Domi was traded for Anderson in a swap, with the Habs adding a [...]

Goaltending has been a sore spot for the Sharks for years now, and they’re attempting to address this problem by acquiring goaltender Devan Dubnyk from the Minnesota Wild for a fifth-round pick in 2022. Aaron Dell just became a UFA this year so it appears that the Sharks will be going into 2020-21 with a [...]

We knew Pittsburgh would need to clear some cap space this summer, and part of this apparently includes trading Patric Hornqvist to Florida for defenceman Mike Matheson and forward Colton Sceviour. At the least, they clear it up front. Matheson saw a big hit in ice time this year, dropping from 21-22 minutes the previous [...]

On Wednesday afternoon, the Wild and Sabres traded forwards with a year remaining on their deals. The Sabres brought in three-time 40-goal man Eric Staal while the Wild took in 29-year-old Marcus Johansson. No money was retained by either side. The Wild Receive: A versatile forward who lives in the 40-point pace year after year. [...]