If Marc-Andre Fleury wants to play NHL hockey this season, he'll have every opportunity to. Fleury's name has been making the rounds of late, and there's been multiple reports stating he's been contacted about making a comeback for numerous teams. Fleury, 41, signed a one-week contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins before this season started, and had himself a great week 'retiring' as a Penguin, which included playing in one preseason game. It gave Fleury one last chance to play alongside Sidne...
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The Nashville Predators are going to be entering sell mode, where the Montreal Canadiens will be buying all day long, and these two teams have been linked to a trade by one of the biggest hockey insiders in the game. The Athletic's Chris Johnston sees the Canadiens as a perfect landing spot for Predators' veteran forward Jonathan Marchessault. The 34-year-old winger has three seasons left on his contract at $5.5 million AAV, and owns a full no-movement clause. This is a move that would c...
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The Toronto Maple Leafs didn't take long to replace Marc Savard on their bench, as the team announced they've promoted Steve Sullivan to assistant coach. Sullivan joins the Leafs bench from the AHL's Toronto Marlies. He'll replace Savard, who was running the power play, which was ranked last in the entire NHL at just over 13% efficiency. Once Savard was let go on December 22, Brad Treliving made it clear the team wasn't hiring anyone externally, and that's exactly the case as Sullivan gets pro...
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His role with the team has been greatly diminished over the past couple of months, and now David Tomasek is officially finished with the Edmonton Oilers . The team will be placing him on waivers on Sunday (at the end of the NHL's Holiday Roster Freeze period) for the purpose of contract termination. Once he officially clears waivers, he will be heading back to the Swedish Hockey League. Oilers and Tomasek mutually agree to part ways. He’s going back to SHL, but has to clear NHL wai...
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The Los Angeles Kings have been kicked out of the top-3 in their division and recently traded Phillip Danault after things went south quickly. Danault has completely lost his scoring touch and has just five assists in 31 games this season (30 with LA). The second/third line two-way center at least still has his defensive game, and that's why the Montreal Canadiens traded for him, but he wasn't adding to the offense that the Kings needed, in LA. The team reportedly turned down offers to get a p...
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The Seattle Kraken are in an interesting spot. It's tough to pin down their direction as they came in as a struggling expansion team, shocked everyone in their second season, and then are back to a non-playoff team, but also not a lottery team either. The Kraken have plenty of good young talent, but also tradeable veterans to alter their roster and bring in more futures and open up space. In the 2024 offseason, the Kraken brought in Chandler Stephenson and Brandon Montour, but it didn't push t...
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The Toronto Maple Leafs have had somewhat of a nightmare season and are second-last in the Eastern Conference with 37 points (16-15-5). There have been plenty of injuries, underperforming players, and assistant coach Marc Savard already let go, but more is going to be in store for the Maple Leafs if they don't go on a run very soon. The next to go will have to be head coach Craig Berube, despite comments that Berube and GM Brad Treliving are safe. Organizations will always say that until it ge...
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The Columbus Blue Jackets' trade for Mason Marchment is turning out to be a stroke of genius. With three goals in his first two games with the Jackets, he's closing back in on a 20-goal pace after a very slow start to the season with the Seattle Kraken. But in addition to the offensive boost he's given Columbus, Marchment has given the team some intriguing options moving forward this season, as cited by insider Frank Seravalli on his Bleacher Report Insider Notebook. But Columbus i...
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The Carolina Hurricanes don't need the cap space by moving out some of their players if they want to add this season (which they always do), but it doesn't hurt to finally move off of one player in particular that has never lived up to the cost he was acquired for or where he was drafted. According to David Pagnotta, "Jesperi Kotkaniemi's name has been out there for the last little bit. I think this goes back to last season." The Hurricanes have $14 million in cap space and are first in the Ea...
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We have already seen a number of trades around the NHL by Christmas this season, but there is plenty more to come, some sooner than others and could be in the first half of January. There are three teams in particular that are being looked at as prime suspects in the trade market to do something in the short term. David Pagnotta said, "I'm looking at St. Louis, Seattle, and Anaheim. I think these are three teams that are looking to make some moves." The St. Louis Blues may be the most heavily ...
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Something is going to get done with the Buffalo Sabres as new general manager Jarmo Kekalainen isn't going to sit around and hope this team can get it done when they haven't for years. Even while the Sabres have won seven games in a row and are four games over .500, it will take more than that to outplay half of the teams in the Eastern Conference who are also in the playoff race and sitting at at least .500 on the season. David Pagnotta revealed, "The Sabres trading Owen Power or Bowen Byram ...
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The Buffalo Sabres are finishing up 2025 with a bang. Seven straight wins, just two points out of a playoff spot, and a new general manager in place, bringing a fresh, new, aggressive attitude. But don't expect this franchise to be happy with the current seven-game run. Jarmo Kekalainen will be going pedal to the metal here, as he pushes for even more for the Sabres. Insider Chris Johnston said on the Nielson Show podcast that the new Buffalo GM will be very active in putting his stamp o...
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The Seattle Kraken moved on from a failed experiment with Mason Marchment pretty quickly, dealing him after just 29 games to the Columbus Blue Jackets just before the Holiday Trade Freeze a few days back. But according to insider David Pagnotta, that's likely just the first domino for the Kraken, in what could be a series of moves. Appearing on the Oilersnation podcast, Pagnotta said that the franchise's all-time leading scorer, Jared McCann, could potentially be next. He's been in play ...
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The Minnesota Wild gave up a lot to get Quinn Hughes this season, including Marco Rossi, Zeev Buium, Liam Ohgren, and a 2026 first-round pick. The Wild, while staying competitive, need to replenish their roster with some younger talent as some of their veterans are the ones weighing their team down. The Wild appear to have one name in mind on the Philadelphia Flyers . According to Anthony DiMarco, "The Minnesota Wild have shown continued interest in trading for Bobby Brink." Brink has turned i...
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The Minnesota Wild have chosen to go for it for at least the next couple of years and are in the most competitive division (playoff teams) in the league. They are third in the NHL, but are also third in their own division behind the Colorado Avalanche and Dallas Stars . The Wild signed Kirill Kaprizov to a massive deal in the offseason and acquired Quinn Hughes from the Vancouver Canucks not too long ago. With a strong defensive group and two very good goalies, they are set to compete, but cou...
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The Toronto Maple Leafs are not in a good place right now, and if things don't start to change for the better, there will be more changes, probably starting with the head coach and not just assistant coach Marc Savard. Toronto is one game over .500, sit second last in the Eastern Conference in a tight race where every team is at least .500, and are five points back of a playoff spot after their latest win. But the Maple Leafs have lost five of their past seven games and have been inconsistent ...
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The Edmonton Oilers have already made one goalie trade this season, and from the sounds of it, they're not done adding in their crease. Multiple reports have surfaced stating the Oilers have contacted Marc-Andre Fleury about coming out of retirement. Surprisingly, Fleury is open to joining a contender, this coming after he signed a one-week contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins, and retired as a Penguins during the preseason. The Oilers see Fleury as the perfect addition to Tristan Jarry, as t...
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The Vancouver Canucks are going to trade pending unrestricted free-agent forward Kiefer Sherwood before the deadline this season, and according to multiple reports, keep an eye on the Boston Bruins as the landing spot. Sherwood has Bruins written all over him considering his style of play, and the two teams have actually been discussing this move dating back to last summer. Sherwood's been on a tear this season, scoring 16 goals and 20 points in 36 games. He's averaging 17:29 of ice-time per g...
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Team USA roster season is basically here, and the early buzz is already getting uncomfortable for some fans. Michael Russo of The Athletic is expecting three names, having excellent seasons, to be on the outside looking in for the 2026 Olympics, with Cole Caufield, Jason Robertson, and John Carlson all trending toward a surprise snub.
Why Cole Caufield and Jason Robertson might miss out
The wild part with Caufield is it’s not about talent (obviously), it’s about the team's fit and th...
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The Nashville Predators are headed for a fire sale this season and GM Barry Trotz is going to have to approach veteran Steven Stamkos on where he'd like his next chapter of his hockey career to be. The Preds are slowly creeping down the standings in the Western Conference, and Trotz is going to have no choice but to make a few moves. Stamkos started slow this year but has turned it on of late. He enters the Christmas break with 15 goals and 22 points in 36 games this season, and is playing 17:...
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The NHL's trade market is frozen at the moment, but once the holidays are over, look for a slew of moves to come before the Olympic break. January's going to be a busy month of transactions, and one player you can expect to see traded is Calgary Flames defenceman Rasmus Andersson. Andersson recently admitted the Flames haven't approached him about a contract extension, cemented the writing on the wall that a deal is coming. He's a pending UFA, having a monster season for the Flames, and is lik...
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Auston Matthews trade talk is not a thing Toronto Maple Leafs fans ever wanted to take seriously, but the spiral has pushed it from internet noise into actual radio conversation. On Sportsnet 590, Nick Kypreos flat out said it could be discussed as soon as this summer, and he tied it to one reality Toronto cannot ignore, the only way to truly change this era might involve touching the top of the roster.
Auston Matthews trade talk is a summer conversation
Kypreos made it clear he does...
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Vancouver Canucks GM Patrik Allvin made an appearance on Amazon Prime's intermission panel this week, and told the crew that his team is undergoing what he calls a 'hybrid retool.' What that really means is, from all accounts, don't expect a mass sell-off. In particular, 12 players are likely going nowhere. Allvin said the Quinn Hughes trade with Minnesota brought them young players who are pieces for the future, but, essentially, ready to contribute now. Canucks GM Patrik Allvin jo...
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Despite a five-goal outbreak against the Philadelphia Flyers on the weekend, the New York Rangers have been struggling to score. They have four games of zero or one goal in their last seven, and currently sit dead last in the Eastern Conference with just 97 goals scored this season, in 38 games, going into Tuesday's action. But their leading scorer, Artemi Panarin, might not be long for the Big Apple. A pending unrestricted free agent, he has had no extension talks since turning down a d...
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While pending unrestricted free agent Rasmus Andersson's future remains up in the air in Calgary, he is still one of the top trade candidates in the NHL. And while certain teams have been mentioned as likely landing spots, we're getting a little more clarity on where he'd be willing to sign an extension. And while the d-man only has a six-team no-trade list, giving him limited say in the matter, where he does have a say, is where he'd be open to extending. Insider Frank Seravalli explain...
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