Fantasy Take – Latest NHL Moves

Starting in February of 2020, over a four-year span, winger Tyler Toffoli wound up with six different teams: Los Angeles, Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary, New Jersey, and Winnipeg. It is safe to say he was probably tired of getting bounced around so much, so he found a home with some term in San Jose: https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/1807804162815467802 Toffoli [...]

The Vancouver Canucks have signed winger Jake DeBrusk to a 7-year contract with a $5.5 million average annual value. The Canucks have also signed forwards Kiefer Sherwood (2 yrs, $1.5 million) and Danton Heinen (2 yrs, $2.25 million), as well as defenseman Derek Forbort (1 yr, $1.5 million). https://twitter.com/Canucks/status/1807813504549925202 The Canucks receive: DeBrusk, who hasn’t [...]

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 [...]