Fantasy Take – Latest NHL Moves

  Chalk this one up to things I didn't expect to be writing about today. The Las Vegas Golden Knights have fired head coach, Gerad Gallant and immediately replaced him with Peter Deboer. Gallant, less than two years removed from leading the expansion club to the Stanley Cup Finals and winning the Jack Adams for [...]

Breaking down the NHL's 2020 Trade Deadline from a Fantasy Hockey perspective. Be sure to visit us regularly as Dobber, Ian Gooding, Mike Clifford, and Cam Robinson deliver the spin on fantasy-relevant trades as they happen...   * February 24 * COUSINS HEADS TO VEGAS To Vegas: Nick Cousins (F) To Montreal: 4th-round pick (TBD) [...]

  Fantasy Impact: New Jersey trades superstar winger Taylor Hall along with Blake Speers to Arizona for three prospects and two draft picks.   The Devils get: Prospect winger Nick Merkley has top-six upside but has been hindered...pretty much throughout his career by injuries. He has played more than 45 games in a season just [...]

  The San Jose Sharks fired head coach Peter DeBoer on Wednesday night following a fairly poor start to the season. As of Thursday morning, the team was five points back of a wild card spot and among the dregs of the league in expected goal share. Whether this is DeBoer’s fault or not, the [...]

  In a surprise move on Tuesday morning, the Dallas Stars fired coach Jim Montgomery. He had been the coach since the start of last season, going 60-43-10 during his tenure, including a trip to the second round of the 2019 playoffs. There has been a lot of upheaval in the hockey world over the [...]

  The drafting of Jack Hughes, the trades for P.K. Subban and Nikita Gusev, and the signing of Wayne Simmonds, combined with a healthy Taylor Hall, meant elevated expectations for New Jersey this year. As of early Wednesday morning, the team was 30th in the league and had one more regulation/overtime win than Detroit. Naturally, [...]

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  The writing had been on the wall, but on Wednesday afternoon we finally saw the other shoe drop. After a 9-10-4 start that had the Toronto Maple Leafs flailing outside the Eastern Conference playoff picture, the club opted to let go of the highest-paid coach in the game. With him goes a legacy of [...]

  The rumours of Justin Faulk being traded have been around for a couple years now. Lately, there was a report that Anaheim had a trade in the works that included Ondrej Kase, but that never materialized for one reason or another. On Tuesday morning, there were some breadcrumbs to follow – “Faulk is healthy [...]