Congrats to the Blues, who are now the proud owners of Philip Broberg and Dylan Holloway! They also send a prospect and a 3rd in 2028 to Edmonton for future considerations.
If Broberg doesn’t grow into that contract, it could be $13 million between him and Torey Krug getting paid to do virtually nothing - and that’s assuming Krug doesn’t fight IR or LTIR if [when] the Blues move to put him there.
Canadiens take on Patrik Laine. He and a 2nd round pick were traded for Jordan Harris. Harris is a sneaky good younger defenseman. I like this a lot for the Blue Jackets. Laine clearly wasn’t working out and with his big salary not many teams were going to take him.
It’s a big gamble for the Habs, but if it pays off and Laine returns to being a scoring stud then Bravo to Hughes for making the trade
Don’t take Jesper Fast in your fantasy hockey leagues this year.
Carolina is starting to feel like a franchise that had a Cup window open up and had all the pieces to win it all, but something happened every year and it never got close.
If we needed a reality check, this is certainly it.
This story breaks my heart. RIP Johnny Hockey.
The driver who hit the brothers has a lot to answer for.
Good thing Leon took the hometown discount so that Stan Bowman can have some cap room to … oh, no - wait, he didn’t do that. And, apparently he didn’t take deferred money like Seth Jarvis did to lessen the cap hit. [Which, it will end up aggravating player escrow, but who cares about that right now?]
That team is going to have $47.25 million tied up in 5 players for '25-26, $57.5 million tied up in 7 [presuming Kane is still around], and it will probably be worse the year after. They better hope McDavid can put up postseasons like he did last year, if not better, because they’re not winning the Cup any other way.
This just made me realize that hockey stars are very underpaid compared to the other major sports. Jalen Brunson, an all-star but not by any means one of faces of the sport, gave the Knicks a “hometown discount” for 4 years at around 39M per. Draisaitl, one of the better players in the league is getting 14M?!?!
They’re “underpaid” on an absolute basis, but you have to get everything on an apples-to-apples basis. That includes
If you do this analysis for women’s vs men’s sports, then you are branded as a sexist.
with no cap, the leafs would sign mcdavid for 25M a year, if not more. Im wondering if there is more revenue variance in the nhl than other sports. It’s pretty sad that a top player like mcdavid cant play for the leafs and secure the bag.
They have Auston Matthews. Leafs fans on teh interwebs swore he was twice the complete player as McDavid.