Fantasy Take – Latest NHL Moves

With new management in Philadelphia and coach John Tortorella establishing his favourites, the clock was ticking on Kevin Hayes’s tenure as a Flyer. The catch with Hayes was his contract, which has three years left, carries an average annual value over $7.1M, and a partial no-trade clause to boot. Philadelphia decided to retain half the [...]

The Boston Bruins traded winger Taylor Hall and pending UFA winger Nick Foligno to the Chicago Blackhawks in exchange for prospect defensemen Ian Mitchell and Alec Regula. The Blackhawks get: a former star winger in Hall, who is now a shadow of his former self. With Boston, Hall was a regular middle-six winger who saw [...]

The Arizona Coyotes have acquired defenseman Sean Durzi from the Los Angeles Kings for a second-round pick in the 2024 NHL Draft, a pick that originally belonged to the Montreal Canadiens. In his two NHL seasons, Durzi has shown some offensive ability. Most recently, he scored 38 points in 72 games for the Kings in [...]

The Colorado Avalanche have acquired forward Ryan Johansen from the Nashville Predators in exchange for forward Alex Galchenyuk. An important term to this transaction is that the Predators will be retaining half of Johansen’s $8 million cap hit for two more seasons. So this trade is about the Predators freeing up some cap space without [...]

Coaching vacancies were dwindling and though there were rumours of Peter Laviolette being the new bench boss for the New York Rangers, until things like that are announced, rumours are exactly that. That vacancy came to an end on Tuesday as the Rangers announced Laviolette will be the head coach for the 2023-24 season, even [...]

It seemed possible that the Columbus Blue Jackets would tinker with their blue line in the offseason considering the injuries and underperformance last season. They started that process by trading for Ivan Provorov earlier this week, and they continued that process on Friday morning by trading for a pending free agent from New Jersey, and [...]

We got something we don’t usually get during the Stanley Cup playoffs, and that was a sizable trade. One of the storylines out West this offseason was what the Los Angeles Kings would do because they had Gabriel Vilardi as a pending RFA (among others), Vladislav Gavrikov and Joonas Korpisalo as free agents, and not [...]

The Anaheim Ducks have hired Greg Cronin to be their new bench boss. It’s rare to see someone land their first NHL head coaching gig at the age of 60, but there’s no denying the wealth of experience Cronin brings to the table. A former player in the ECAC, Cronin parlayed that into an assistant [...]

After some speculation, Washington made it official by hiring Spencer Carbery to be their new head coach. Carbery has spent that last couple of years behind the bench of the Toronto Maple Leafs helping out Sheldon Keefe. Before that, he was the head coach of Washington’s AHL affiliate, so he’s a name very familiar with [...]

The Anaheim Ducks have traded defenseman John Klingberg to the Minnesota Wild for a fourth-round pick in 2025, defenseman Andrej Sustr, and the rights to Nikita Nesterenko. The Wild receive: Klingberg, in a trade that was submitted to the league right before the 3 pm ET horn sounded. Klingberg was signed to a one-year, $7 [...]