Category: NHL

Every NHL team needs players who provide good value for money or outplay their salaries, and the Winnipeg Jets are no exception. General manager Kevin Cheveldayoff has locked up quite few players to relatively team-friendly deals and has no albatross contracts (at least compared to some other clubs) hindering him. Here, we’ll dive into the…

Heading into the upcoming 2026-27 season, Carolina Hurricanes’ netminder Pyotr Kochetkov is in an interesting place. After missing most of the 2025-26 season, he enters the final year of his four-year, $8 million deal, which pays him $2 million annually. He finished last season with a 6-2-0 record with a 2.33 goals-against average (GAA), a .899 save percentage…

The Montreal Canadiens just ran into a better team. As far as heartbreaks go, the upstart Habs losing to the eventual-Stanley Cup champion-Carolina Hurricanes in Round 3, even in just five games, was fairly tame. It might have hurt in the moment, but, looking at the defeat as objectively as possible, it should be hard…

One of the biggest reasons the Montreal Canadiens have been able to build such a promising roster is Kent Hughes’ willingness to be proactive. Rather than waiting for players to reach unrestricted free agency or put together career years, the Canadiens’ general manager has often looked to get deals done early. The long-term extensions for…

Melvin Fernstrom’s first full season under contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins included a disappointing start, an encouraging restart and an injury that prevented a definitive evaluation. The Penguins traded Marcus Pettersson and Drew O’Connor to the Vancouver Canucks in January 2025 for Danton Heinen, Vincent Desharnais, Fernstrom and a conditional first-round pick – that selection…

The Pittsburgh Penguins have reached August with enough salary-cap space to solve someone else’s problem. PuckPedia projects Pittsburgh to have roughly $13.7 million in available space under the NHL’s $104 million ceiling. The Penguins also have a full 23-player roster and 47 of their 50 standard player contracts committed, meaning president of hockey operations and…

10. James Hagens, F, Boston Bruins 9. Ilya Protas, F, Washington Capitals 8. Jacob Fowler, G, Montreal Canadiens 7. Cole Hutson, D, Washington Capitals 6. Konsta Helenius, F, Buffalo Sabres 5. Roman Kantserov, F, Chicago Blackhawks 4. Anton Frondell, F, Chicago Blackhawks 3. Ivar Stenberg, F, San Jose Sharks 2. Gavin McKenna, F, Toronto Maple…

Before his trade to the Florida Panthers in late June, Brady Tkachuk was the fifth-highest-scoring Ottawa Senator in club history with 463 points in 572 games. Though he forced his way out of the organization, Tkachuk joins other active Sens legends, like Erik Karlsson and Mark Stone, who have been traded in years past. While…

The start of August means we’re just over a month and a half away from NHL hockey starting back up. Time will go pretty fast now, but the news will likely still be slow; we only have a handful of Minnesota Wild report cards to go, and next up is a player who played on…

The Pittsburgh Penguins’ decision to extend Tommy Novak created longer-term stability in the middle of their lineup. It also made Hendrix Lapierre one of the players facing the most pressure when training camp begins. Novak’s new three-year contract begins in 2027-28, runs through 2029-30 and carries a $4.65 million average annual value. He will play…