Fantasy Take – Latest NHL Moves

The Pittsburgh Penguins have traded diminutive winger Conor Sheary, along with defenseman Matt Hunwick to the Buffalo Sabres  for a conditional fourth-round draft pick that can become a third rounder if certain conditions are met.   The Penguins get: over $5 million in salary relief. I stress time and again on here how important this [...]

  The Calgary Flames have traded defenseman Dougie Hamilton, winger Micheal Ferland, and prospect blueliner Adam Fox to the Carolina Hurricanes for defenseman Noah Hanifin and forward Elias Lindholm.   The Flames get: A recent fifth overall draft pick who is a stud defensively and has untapped offensive potential. Hanifin hasn’t even come close to [...]

The Los Angeles Kings have signed "retired" free agent forward Ilya Kovalchuk to a three-year deal worth $6.25 million per season. The 35-year-old winger played the last five seasons in the KHL.   The Kings get: A proven NHL player and five-time 40-goal scorer, two-time 50-goal scorer. And Kovalchuk's 141 points (63 goals) over the [...]

  We kept hearing chatter all day about a bunch of trades that were supposed to be in the works and nothing came to fruition. Just as the Entry Draft was about to start, we got our first trade of the day: the Colorado Avalanche traded a second-round pick this year (47th overall) to the [...]

Following his departure from the Washington Capitals, one of the immediate straight lines drawn was for Barry Trotz to be heading to the New York Islanders. They had a vacancy and presumably the desire to bring in a coach with a winning pedigree to not only give the fans some hope but to convince a [...]

  It had been some time now that Ottawa was looking to ship out some salary. When looking at the roster, Mike Hoffman’s was a name that came up frequently for the team to be able to dump some money. Following the allegations of Hoffman’s fiancée cyber-bullying Melinda Karlsson after the loss of her child, [...]

Carolina had some gaps to fill this offseason with Bill Peters heading to Calgary and Ron Francis being fired before the end of the regular season. New owner Tom Dundon filled those vacancies with former team captain and Stanley Cup champion Rod Brind’Amour as the head coach and Don Waddell as the general manager Brind’Amour [...]

It was pretty much confirmed a couple of days ago but the Dallas Stars made it official today: their next head coach will be Jim Montgomery. It was first reported by SBNation’s Chris Dilks and then confirmed by multiple other sources. In a piece by Sean Shapiro at the Athletic a couple weeks ago, two [...]

The Edmonton Oilers announced on Tuesday afternoon that they agreed to terms with 29-year old Finnish goaltender Mikko Koskinen for a one-year contract. The second-round pick of the Islanders back in 2009 just completed his fifth season in the KHL and is now turning his eyes back to the NHL. Obviously, this isn’t official until [...]