You'd be celebrating like Sean Monahan if you just signed a seven-year, $44.625-million contract. The deal for the 21-year-old Calgary star offers hope to other young prospects that they too might be millionaires not long after they're legal to drink. After a dog-days-of-August lull, player signings by NHL teams spiked again this week, [...]
The New York Rangers partially compensated Friday for trading their past four first-round draft picks by signing prized free agent Jimmy Vesey. Inking a two-year, entry-level contract worth a total of $1.85 million and bearing an annual cap hit of $925,000, the 23-year-old Harvard grad leaps to the top of the Rangers’ prospect depth [...]
Matt Murray is the hottest young goaltending prospect in the NHL. Successfully defending a Stanley Cup championship is harder than it’s ever been since the NHL instituted a salary cap. The Pittsburgh Penguins, however, are positioned to do just that. At this point, it looks like every player who hoisted the venerable mug only [...]
The Florida Panthers have a prospect pool with some incredible talent, with a few of them ready to take the next step to the NHL. The Panthers had a great season in 2015/16, capturing the Atlantic Division title and, with off-season moves and top-level prospects ready to take the next step, it is [...]
Calgary prospect Tyler Parsons stymied Team Canada in a 5-1 U.S. victory to conclude the World Junior Summer Showcase. Finland’s junior hockey players continued their hot streak by winning the World Junior Summer Showcase, while Team Canada is trying to deduce what went wrong. Finland finished atop the exhibition tournament in spite of losing [...]
Tyson Barrie seems determined to go the distance in arbitration with the Colorado Avalanche, whose coach Patrick Roy is rumored to have sourced on the young offensive defenseman. UPDATE: The Colorado Avalanche signed defenseman Tyson Barrie to a four-year, $22-million contract Sunday hours before an arbitration ruling was due. Tyson, the only one of [...]
With their first pick of the 2016 entry draft, the Pittsburgh Penguins selected Swedish goalie Filip Gustavsson. The Stanley Cup champs followed their remarkable season with an understated draft, holding six picks through seven rounds and not making their first selection until near the end of the second round. After another late second-rounder, the [...]
While all NHL GMs wrestle with the league-wide salary cap, Jim Rutherford of the Pittsburgh Penguins is the only one whose team is currently over the league's cap ceiling. When do NHL GMs get to use vacation time? After the seemingly interminable season ends and the Stanley Cup parade is done, the annual entry [...]
Was there ever any doubt that Maple Leaf GM Lou Lamoriello would sign franchise center Auston Matthews to an entry-level contract? Welcome back for my latest Prospect Ramblings column. This week, I look at the media mirage surrounding the Auston Matthews contract signing, the upcoming rookie tournaments across the league, and Chris [...]
The Sabres can't wait for 2016 first-round pick Alexander Nylander to show up at their training camp. Another NHL season is in the rearview mirror, the entry draft has come and gone, and free agents have been getting signed, or not, for more than two weeks. Hockey season is over – except for general [...]
