Well, after a flurry of trade activity over the past week or two, the NHL trade deadline came and went Friday afternoon, and I have to admit that it was an underwhelming day. There were a lot of depth moves and cap-balancing transactions, but very few impactful transactions. The days leading up to the deadline [...]
Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. Ty Smith (PIT) While the red flags surrounding Smith, 22, are piling up, he remains an intriguing, high-upside fantasy option moving forward. The main question is whether or not he can [...]
Flip Livingstone’s Picks Take a deep breath and exhale, hockey fans. The tumultuous few weeks approaching Friday’s 3 p.m. EST NHL trade deadline has officially come and gone. Now, we’re left to pick up the pieces of what those moves mean for all of the degenerate (and regular) gamblers out there. Don’t worry, I have [...]
What a whirlwind week it’s been in the NHL with perhaps the most active trade deadline I can remember. Even for someone like me who keeps pretty close tabs on player news, it was tough to keep up with all the moves. If you have the time, I suggest going back through our Ramblings columns [...]
With the NHL trade deadline being a thing of the past, I hope all of your favorite teams made moves that aligned with how the team should be moving going forward. A contending team should have bought in an acquired some rentals to help vault themselves towards the Stanley Cup, while a team towards the [...]
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 [...]
Breaking down the NHL's Trade Deadline from a Fantasy Hockey perspective. Ian Gooding, Mike Clifford and Alexander MacLean deliver the spin on fantasy-relevant trades. --- March 3 KLINGBERG MOVES TO MINNESOTA To MINNESOTA:John Klingberg, D To ANAHEIM:Andrej Sustr, DNikita Nesterenko, C4th-round pick in 2025 See Analysis | Discuss RITCHIE FOR RITCHIE To CALGARY:Nick Ritchie, LWTroy [...]
Welcome to deadline day. This has been a wild week with a ton of action leading up to Friday. As I am writing this on Thursday I don’t know if there are any dominoes still falling, but there are probably a couple of players that did not move right? For a full list of fantasy [...]
Another episode, another flurry of trades for Elan and Shams to go through in our best attempt of a Short Shift. We discuss how the defence movement of Jakob Chychrun, Filip Hronek, Shayne Gostisbehere, Vladislav Gavrikov and Mattias Ekholm affects their old and new teams. We also give our thoughts on how the Jonathan Quick [...]
The St. Louis Blues have acquired forward Jakub Vrana from the Detroit Red Wings in exchange for forward Dylan McLaughlin and a seventh-round draft pick in 2025. The Blues receive: Vrana, a potential top-6 winger who has scored at between 0.7-0.75 PTS/GP over his previous three seasons. More recently, Vrana had been sidelined by shoulder [...]
