Fantasy Take – Latest NHL Moves

The Washington Capitals continue to improve their NHL roster in an attempt to get Alex Ovechkin to the all-time goals record, this time by acquiring Calgary Flames forward Andrew Mangiapane. Going back to the Flames was a second-round pick, and there was no salary retained so this is a straight swap of player-for-pick: https://twitter.com/reporterchris/status/1806480939872321548 Let’s [...]

Vancouver signed Teddy Blueger earlier on Thursday and then late Thursday night made a trade that helps them clear some cap space. The Canucks sent winger Ilya Mikheyev to the Chicago Blackhawks, along with the rights to Sam Lafferty and a second round pick in 2027 for a fourth round pick in 2027 in return. [...]

Stanley Cup Final. Game 7. Fans watching with bated breath as puck drop approaches. All eyes are on Edmonton and Florida, on Linus Ullmark and Joonas Korpisalo – I mean Stuart Skinner and Sergei Bobrovsky. Minutes before the biggest game in recent memory, Boston and Ottawa decided to steal the spotlight with one of the [...]

Unlike the Jacob Markstrom to New Jersey trade that had been teased for months if not a year, this bombshell came out of nowhere.   https://twitter.com/PierreVLeBrun/status/1803502883041898781 The Capitals are taking on some huge term, banking on Pierre-Luc Dubois to rebound, meanwhile the Kings fix their hole in net while shedding immediate salary, but also adding [...]

The New Jersey Devils acquired Jacob Markstrom (salary 31.25% retained), and he will now form a tandem next year with Jake Allen. This is a /significant/ improvement over the options from last season. The return to the Calgary Flames was Kevin Bahl and a top-10 protected 2025 1st Round Pick. https://twitter.com/NHL/status/1803465819923366258 This furthers Calgary’s rebuild/reset with [...]

The San Jose Sharks fired head coach David Quinn a week after their regular season finished. What they expected from him given the roster they have is unclear, but it is clear they wanted to go in a different direction with their bench boss and they have made their choice in former Charlotte Checkers (AHL) [...]

Former Pittsburgh Penguins and Buffalo Sabres head coach, and current Coachella Valley Firebirds head coach, Dan Bylsma was named the new bench boss for the Seattle Kraken on Tuesday. The AHL affiliate Firebirds are still taking part in the AHL playoffs so he’s not 100% with the big club just yet, but he will be [...]

New Jersey has hired former Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Sheldon Keefe to be their new bench boss. The Devils missed the postseason this year after making it to the second round a season ago, and that led to the dismissal of coach Lindy Ruff. After years of playoff disappointment, Keefe was also let go [...]

Following a successful season with the Nashville Predators, Ryan McDonagh is heading back to Tampa Bay as the Lightning re-acquired one of their stalwarts from their two Stanley Cup runs. He had 32 points in his second year with the Predators, finishing second among the team’s blue liners in ice time per game. He also [...]

The Toronto Maple Leafs have hired Craig Berube to be their new head coach, replacing the fired Sheldon Keefe. Berube was previously the head coach of the St. Louis Blues, where he took over as head coach partway through the 2018-19 season and guided the team from the bottom of the standings to a Stanley [...]