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Maple Leafs’ Roni Hirvonen Signs With Liiga’s Kärpät

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Maple Leafs center prospect Roni Hirvonen is returning home to Finland on a one-year contract with Liiga’s Kärpät, per a team announcement Monday. Hirvonen is a pending restricted free agent after completing his entry-level contract. Toronto can retain his NHL signing rights through the 2028-29 season if they issue him a qualifying offer.

A second-round pick by the Leafs in 2020, Hirvonen has been a serviceable middle-six forward in Finland and the AHL, but hasn’t seen much forward progression in his game. His point-per-game rates in his five seasons since being drafted are strikingly similar: 0.39 in 2020-21 with Ässät, 0.57 in 2021-22 and 0.49 in 2022-23 with HIFK, and 0.35 in 2023-24 and 0.36 in 2024-25 with Toronto’s AHL affiliate.

While the 5’10”, 179-lb Hirvonen is only 23 years old and likely still has upside as a fourth-line piece, the lack of offensive progression indicates nothing else in the tank. Unsurprisingly, his play style was always that of a more defensively-minded forward. Nonetheless, he’s dealt with some injuries. He hasn’t played close to a full AHL schedule since arriving in North America two years ago, posting a 17-17–34 scoring line for the Marlies while playing in 96 of 144 possible regular-season games.

Hirvonen likely wanted more opportunity to develop his two-way game and, as a result, will return to a more familiar environment and, ideally, more consistent playing time, before attempting a return to North America next offseason or further down the line. Notable players selected after Hirvonen in the 2020 draft include Will Cuylle (one spot after at No. 60 overall), Alex Laferriere (No. 83), and Nils Åman (No. 167).

Dante Fabbro, Blue Jackets Discussing Long-Term Extension

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The Blue Jackets have progressed in extension talks with pending unrestricted free agent defenseman Dante Fabbro, Andy Strickland of FanDuel Sports Network reports Monday. Strickland adds that it’s expected to be a long-term deal if finalized.

Fabbro isn’t Columbus’ top pending UFA in terms of market value, even among defensemen. That honor goes to the minute-munching Ivan Provorov. Yet getting a commitment from Fabbro is a highly important piece of business as well.

Perhaps no pending UFA saw their stock rise in-season as much as Fabbro. The soon-to-be 27-year-old was claimed off waivers from the Predators early in the season after failing to land a regular job in their lineup in his sixth full NHL season. Initially, the only hope was that Fabbro could provide some needed right-side depth on the Jackets’ blue line after losing veteran Erik Gudbranson for most of the season early on due to a shoulder injury.

Instead, Fabbro was given a trial in top-pairing duties at even strength alongside Norris Trophy finalist Zach Werenski and never left. The Werenski-Fabbro pairing was just one of seven league-wide to play over 1,000 minutes together at 5-on-5. Among the seven, they were the fifth-best at controlling play with a 54.4% share of expected goals, per MoneyPuck. It was Werenski’s best play-driving season with his primary partner since his second year in the league, when he and Seth Jones posted a 54.9 xGF% back in 2017-18.

Individually, Fabbro solidified himself as one of the best right-shot options available on the open market this summer behind Panthers pending UFA Aaron Ekblad. He made 62 appearances for Columbus after the waiver claim, posting a 9-17–26 scoring line and a +23 rating while averaging 21:39 per game. All were career highs, even when including his brief six-game sample with Nashville before the move. He also featured alongside Provorov on Columbus’ top penalty kill unit for most of the season, aside from when Gudbranson was healthy.

He would have been an extremely desirable target if he decided to test free agency as virtually the only defensively responsible righty with legitimate puck-moving ability and a recent history of substantial possession impacts in a top-four role. Instead, he’ll likely continue to play a key role with the Blue Jackets as they enter 2025-26 well-armed with the tools to enter a playoff contention window and end a five-year postseason drought.

Fabbro was projected to land a four-year deal worth around $4.5MM per season on the open market, according to AFP Analytics. A long-term deal that eats up more of the 2016 first-rounder’s prime will likely come in closer to the $5MM-$6MM range, though. With over $40MM in cap space to burn this summer, that shouldn’t impact their ability to make a competitive offer to retain Provorov while also leaving space to acquire one of the market’s top forwards.

Islanders Name Ryan Bowness Assistant General Manager

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The Islanders have named Ryan Bowness as an assistant general manager and their director of player personnel, the team announced Monday.

Bowness, 41, arrives on Long Island after serving in a similar role for the Senators over the past three seasons. He was an AGM there under Pierre Dorion and Steve Staios, and his principal responsibilities included managing the club’s AHL affiliate in Belleville.

He will not hold the same role under new Isles GM Mathieu Darche, Stefen Rosner of The Hockey News reports. That’s an important distinction. Outgoing GM Lou Lamoriello signed his AGMs, including his son Chris Lamoriello, to contract extensions shortly before the club informed him his contract would not be renewed for next season, according to David Pagnotta of The Fourth Period. The younger Lamoriello had served as AHL Bridgeport’s GM since the 2017-18 season, during which time they’ve made the playoffs just twice and finished 2024-25 with a league-worst 15-50-7 record.

There was understandable speculation that Darche might opt to fire Lamoriello anyway, or at least reassign the AHL GM duties to someone else in the front office, but that doesn’t appear to be the case. Bowness will instead augment the existing support staff of Lamoriello and Stephen Pellegrini, another longtime Lamoriello assistant, as the team looks for a new direction at the top while adding some much-needed organizational depth to aid in prospect development.

The Nova Scotia native and son of longtime NHL coach Rick Bowness began his front office career in 2009 after just a handful of professional games as a right-winger, although he was an eighth-round pick of the Blue Jackets back in 2001. He started out as a team manager for the Thrashers/Jets franchise from the 2009-10 to 2012-13 campaigns before being promoted to Winnipeg’s pro scouting department. After three more years in Manitoba, Bowness joined the Penguins’ scouting department from 2016-17 to 2021-22. His last three years in Pittsburgh were spent as their director of professional scouting.

Kraken Linked To Aaron Schneekloth For Assistant Coach Vacancy

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The Kraken are aiming to hire AHL Colorado head coach Aaron Schneekloth to fill one of their assistant coach vacancies, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman said on Sunday’s 32 Thoughts podcast.

Schneekloth, 46, has a 12-year coaching career spent exclusively with the Colorado Eagles club, dating back to their days as the ECHL affiliate of the Jets and Flames from 2013-14 to 2015-16. He started as an assistant coach but was promoted to head coach when the Eagles affiliated with the Avs beginning in 2016-17. He stayed on staff when the Eagles were promoted from the ECHL to the AHL for the 2018-19 season to accommodate the NHL’s expansion to Vegas, but was demoted back to an assistant role under Greg Cronin, whom the Avs hired that offseason to serve as their new minor-league bench boss.

When Cronin left Colorado in the 2023 offseason to accept the Ducks’ head coaching position, the Avs offered the internal promotion to Schneekloth. The Eagles have remained one of the AHL’s premier clubs under his watch, posting an 83-46-15 record over the last two seasons. They won the Pacific Division regular-season title for the first time since their promotion from the ECHL. However, they were eliminated in the Calder Cup Playoffs by the Abbotsford Canucks in the Division Final.

Under Schneekloth, the Eagles also won back-to-back Kelly Cups during his two seasons at the helm in the ECHL. The Calgary native has been with the organization since his playing days as a defenseman, first joining them in 2006 when they played in the now-defunct Central Hockey League. He never reached the NHL level and only got a cup of coffee in the AHL early in his career but was an elite offensive presence in the lower-level minors, including two seasons over a point per game for the Eagles and a 20-goal, 62-point campaign in 72 games in their first season in the ECHL en route to being named the league’s Defenseman of the Year. He also won a Central Hockey League championship with the Eagles in 2007 and an NCAA national title with North Dakota in 2000.

Seattle has two assistant coach vacancies they’re looking to fill. After installing Lane Lambert as their new head coach, they announced Dave Lowry and, later, Bob Woods, would not be returning to Lambert’s staff. Goalie coach Steve Briere was fired alongside Lowry as well, so only assistant coach Jessica Campbell is returning from last year’s coaching group.

Free Agent Focus: Philadelphia Flyers

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Free agency is now under a month away, and teams are looking ahead to when it opens. There will be several impact players set to hit the open market in July, while many teams also have key restricted free agents to re-sign. We continue our look around the NHL with an overview of the free agent situation for the Flyers.

Key Restricted Free Agents

D Cameron York – Outside of Travis Sanheim and 2023 first-round pick Oliver Bonk, there’s a dearth of high-end defensemen in the Flyers’ system. The 24-year-old York, while flawed, plays a vital role in helping Philly out of the doldrums. The 2019 first-rounder is coming off a two-year, $3.2MM bridge deal and doesn’t have an intriguing platform year to hang his hat on in negotiations. He posted 17 points in 66 appearances after notching a career-high 30 in all 82 games last year. He also saw his average time on ice drop from 22:37 to 20:47. His possession impacts waned as well, but that’s to be expected when his offensive zone start percentage at even strength went from 53.0% in 2023-24 to just 44.5% in 2024-25. A reported verbal spat with head coach John Tortorella near the end of the season also played a role in the latter’s firing, and the former was benched for an entire game despite being dressed as a result. There’s still a long-term belief in York’s ceiling from the organization’s viewpoint, though, and they’ve examined a long-term deal in talks over the past few weeks. An established second-pairing puck mover at his worst will likely take well north of $5MM per season to accept a lengthier commitment.

F Jakob Pelletier – Philadelphia acquired Pelletier, a 2019 first-rounder alongside York, from the Flames in the deal that sent Joel Farabee and Morgan Frost to Calgary. While he’s been an exceptional minor-league producer since turning pro four years ago, he’s yet to sniff an offensive breakthrough in the NHL. That didn’t change after the trade. Pelletier, who had been on his best NHL scoring pace so far with 11 points in 24 games with Calgary at the time of the move, only logged a 3-5–8 scoring line in 25 games with the Flyers down the stretch in fourth-line minutes. Two of his three goals came in the season’s final five games. He’ll likely get the first crack at a top-nine spot if the Flyers don’t land an external free agent for that role, but it still looks like an uphill battle to earn effective NHL minutes for the 5’9″ winger with defensive acumen. While he’ll likely spurn his qualifying offer in hopes of a one-way deal, his cap hit on a one or two-year prove-it deal shouldn’t cost much more than the $840K NHL salary he’d receive on his QO.

Other RFAs: F Elliot Desnoyers, F Zayde Wisdom

Key Unrestricted Free Agents

F Olle Lycksell – The Flyers don’t have any expected NHL contributors set to hit the open market this summer. Lycksell would have the best chance of the bunch if he opts to continue pursuing playing time in North America, but the 25-year-old is a pending Group VI unrestricted free agent. It wouldn’t be surprising to see him return to his native Sweden or elsewhere in Europe after never landing extended NHL minutes in his three years stateside with the Flyers. A 2017 sixth-round pick, Lycksell has been an exceptional producer with AHL Lehigh Valley during that time, but has just one goal and 10 assists in 45 career NHL appearances, including a career-high 19 this past season. He’s cleared waivers multiple times but could still garner NHL offers on the back of consecutive AHL campaigns over a point per game.

G Calvin Petersen – Petersen was a cap-dump pickup by the Flyers in the three-team trade with the Blue Jackets and Kings that sent defenseman Ivan Provorov to Columbus in 2023. Once posited as a potential goalie of the future in Los Angeles, he’s made just 15 NHL appearances with a garish .866 SV%, 3.80 GAA, and -14.6 GSAA since his three-year, $15MM extension went into effect in the 2022-23 season. He only made five NHL appearances for Philly, all in 2023-24. The 30-year-old hasn’t been impressive in minor-league action, either, particularly this past season. He made 31 appearances for Lehigh Valley and logged a 3.14 GAA, .885 SV%, and a 13-15-3 record. Not only is a return to the Flyers overwhelmingly unlikely, it doesn’t look like he’ll be getting an NHL contract anywhere this summer. The most notable aspect of his pending free agency is the $3.85MM cap hit Petersen carried while buried in the minors coming off the Flyers’ books.

F Givani Smith – While the 27-year-old enforcer has 168 games of NHL experience, none of them have been in a Flyers uniform. He was acquired in a deadline swap with the Avalanche for defenseman Erik Johnson. He was on an AHL assignment at the time and remained there for the rest of 2024-25 after the trade, scoring two points with nine penalty minutes in 10 games for Lehigh Valley. The Flyers were the fifth team to have Smith under contract over the last three seasons, joining the Red Wings, Panthers, Sharks, and Avs. He’s never logged more than seven points or 46 games in an NHL season, and he’s unlikely to eclipse those numbers again. He could be back with Philly on a two-way deal to serve as a veteran presence for the AHL squad but likely won’t get more of a role than that elsewhere.

Other UFAs: F Rhett Gardner, D Louis Belpedio, D Ben Gleason, G Eetu Mäkiniemi

Projected Cap Space

As evidenced by the lack of truly notable names in this article, the Flyers got most of their offseason business out of the way early with extensions for pending RFAs Noah Cates and Tyson Foerster. As a result, they have plenty of spending flexibility this summer with $18.99MM in cap space and only four roster spots to fill. A long-term extension for York still leaves them with around $13MM to spend on three players in an absolute worst-case scenario. They’ll be able to retain who they please while pursuing another impact defenseman, some forward depth, and even a goaltending upgrade if they can swing one without having to worry about financial constraints too much.

Images courtesy of Eric Hartline-Imagn Images (York) and Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images (Lycksell). Contract info courtesy of PuckPedia.

Devils Sign Juho Lammikko

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The Devils signed center Juho Lammikko to a one-way deal worth $800K, PuckPedia reports. He’ll look to win out a roster spot in training camp and avoid waivers and a subsequent assignment to AHL Utica, although the one-way deal stipulates that it won’t affect him financially if it happens.

Lammikko, 29, has three years and 159 games of NHL experience. The left-shot pivot was a third-round pick of the Panthers back in 2014 and made his NHL debut four years later. He made 40 appearances for the Cats in the 2018-19 season, registering six assists and a minus-seven rating, before returning to Europe when his entry-level contract expired. However, Florida retained his signing rights with a qualifying offer, so when he decided he was ready to return stateside after a year and a half abroad in Finland and Russia, he returned to the Panthers for the pandemic-shortened 2020-21 season.

While Lammikko managed a full-time roster spot, something he never held during his first stint in the Panthers organization, his production and role were identical to his rookie campaign. He scored his first four NHL goals but added only one assist for five points in 44 games, posting a minus-eight rating and averaging 10:50 per game. While he didn’t generate any meaningful offense in Florida, he did have some solid possession impacts at even strength, considering he was deployed as a defensive specialist.

After Lammikko re-signed with Florida on a league-minimum, one-way contract for the 2021-22 season, he failed to win a regular spot in the lineup in training camp. As a result, was traded to the Canucks along with Noah Juulsen in exchange for former top defense prospect Olli Juolevi at the beginning of the regular season. It was in British Columbia that Lammikko showed more legitimate upside as a bottom-six checking center. He upped his offensive production with a 7-8–15 scoring line in 75 games, a slight per-game increase even with the increased workload, and saw his ice time jump to the 12-minute range per game. The Finnish pivot also won 51.0% of his faceoffs after finishing at 42.8% and 44.9% in his two prior seasons with Florida. He also finished fourth among Vancouver forwards with 93 hits.

Nonetheless, that wasn’t enough for the Canucks to issue Lammikko a qualifying offer following his career-best campaign. After not pursuing or receiving NHL offers, Lammikko returned to Europe with the ZSC Lions of the Swiss National League. He’s been with ZSC ever since, bringing him some much-desired stability and allowing him to re-emerge as an offensive threat. He potted a 48-64–112 scoring line and a +60 rating in 144 games across the last three years, yielding back-to-back NL championships – he even scored the title-clinching goal in ZSC’s 2024 win. Lammikko is also 11th in NL scoring over the last three seasons.

He’ll now head to Jersey in an attempt to win out a bottom-six spot next year. It’s exceedingly rare for a player to make a jump to the NHL after his first two stints didn’t pan out, but he’s nonetheless hoping the third time is the charm. Bottom-six depth was an easily identifiable area of need for the Devils entering the summer, who have more than a few pending unrestricted free agents at the position and need insurance options in case candidates for internal promotion like Nolan Foote and Nathan Legare don’t work out.

Stars Reportedly Dialing Back Efforts To Trade Jason Robertson

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June 13th: According to today’s rendition of 32 Thoughts, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman has heard that the Stars are already dialing back their efforts to explore moving Robertson this offseason. Friedman wouldn’t confirm whether it was because Dallas prefers to retain Robertson or if they hadn’t received adequate preliminary offers. Furthering this point, David Pagnotta of The Fourth Period spoke on NHL Network, reporting that the Stars prefer to move Mason Marchment, Lyubushkin, or Dumba to alleviate their financial gridlock.

June 10th: It appears there’s some legitimate fire to the smoke that erupted last week when Daily Faceoff’s Jeff Marek opined the Stars could move winger Jason Robertson to ease their incredibly restrictive salary cap space this summer. Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet said on 590 The FAN yesterday that Robertson’s name has indeed been floated in trade talks around the league, although “it’s not a guarantee that [he] goes.”

Robertson, 26 next month, has had a bit of a winding road since bursting onto the scene at the beginning of the decade. The 2017 second-rounder’s rookie season was the shortened 2021 campaign, scoring 45 points in 51 games to finish second on Dallas in scoring and place second in Calder Trophy voting behind Wild star Kirill Kaprizov. After eclipsing the point-per-game mark the following season, the two sides agreed on a four-year, $31MM deal after a lengthy run on the RFA market for Robertson.

It immediately looked like one of the best contracts in the league. Robertson erupted for a career-high 46 goals, 109 points, and a +37 rating while playing in all 82 games in the 2022-23 campaign, placing him fourth in MVP voting and tying for sixth in the NHL in scoring. Since then, Robertson has remained a veritable first-line piece but has seen his point production regress heavily, making him more of an ideal No. 2/3 forward instead of a team’s top scorer. He’s continued that ironman streak from the 2022-23 season but has just 80 points in each of the last two years, a 26% decrease in points per game from the heights of his breakout. His average ice time also dipped below 18 minutes per game in 2024-25 for the first time since his rookie season, and he was limited to six points in 11 postseason games after returning from a knee injury sustained in the final game of the regular season.

Aside from Dallas’ current unenviable cap situation, having just under $5MM in space with seven roster spots to fill, per PuckPedia, there are some peculiarities with Robertson’s contract that make him more of an understandable trade chip than at first glance. He’s still under team control as an RFA with arbitration rights when his extension expires next summer, and because his contract was somewhat significantly backloaded, he’s due a $9.3MM qualifying offer that’s much higher than his current $7.75MM cap hit. While Robertson’s upside remains tantalizing, is that QO number one the cap-crunched Stars are willing to even pay for one year, considering his more pedestrian offensive output over the past two seasons?

There are less efficient deals the Stars will presumably try to jettison first before becoming seriously engaged in Robertson talks. 2024 UFA defense pickups Mathew Dumba and Ilya Lyubushkin both flamed out and make $3.75MM and $3.25MM against the cap next season, respectively. They’d need to replace them with cheaper UFAs this summer, but packaging some futures to get rid of those contracts would at least open up the cap space to potentially retain two of their three main pending UFAs – forwards Jamie Benn, Matt Duchene, and Mikael Granlund. At present, they don’t stand much of a chance of even signing one while being able to fill out the rest of the roster.

If Dallas does structure a Robertson trade, they’ll presumably do so around a cost-effective player who can step into his top-six role directly – potentially a winger still on his entry-level deal – so they can use most of his cap hit to instead commit to extensions for the aforementioned UFAs and potentially pursue a depth defense upgrade.

2025 NHL Offseason Trades

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As with 2024-25’s in-season trades, we’ll keep track of all the NHL trades completed this season and update this article with each transaction. This post can be found anytime throughout the season on our desktop sidebar under “Pro Hockey Rumors Features” or our mobile menu under the Flame icon.

Trades are listed here in reverse chronological order, with the latest on top. So, if a player has been dealt multiple times, the first team listed as having acquired him is the one that ended up with him. Trades listed in italics have been agreed upon but are not yet official. For more details on each trade, click the date above it.

Here’s the full list of trades completed during the 2025 NHL offseason:

2024-25 League Year

July 1st

  • Blackhawks acquire F Sam Lafferty
  • Sabres acquire Blackhawks’ 2026 sixth-round pick

July 1st

July 1st

  • Bruins acquire F Viktor Arvidsson
  • Oilers acquire the Bruins’ 2027 fifth-round pick

June 30

June 30

  • Maple Leafs acquire F Matias Maccelli.
  • Mammoth acquire the Maple Leafs’ 2027 third-round pick.
    • Note: the pick upgrades to the Maple Leafs’ 2029 second-rounder if Maccelli records at least 51 points in 2025-26 and Toronto makes the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

June 30

June 30

  • Predators acquire D Nicolas Hague and the Golden Knights’ 2027 third-round pick.
    • Note: the Predators will receive the Golden Knights’ 2027 second-round pick if Vegas wins at least two playoff rounds in 2026.
  • Golden Knights acquire F Colton Sissons (50% retained) and D Jeremy Lauzon.

June 28

  • Canucks acquire the signing rights to F Ilya Safonov.
  • Blackhawks acquire future considerations.

June 28

  • Flames acquire the Blues’ 2025 seventh-round pick (No. 211).
  • Red Wings acquire the Flames’ 2026 seventh-round pick.

June 28

  • Blue Jackets acquire the Kraken’s 2025 seventh-round pick (No. 198).
  • Kraken acquire the Blue Jackets’ 2025 seventh-round pick (No. 205) and the Golden Knights’ 2025 seventh-round pick (No. 218).

June 28

  • Panthers acquire the Bruins’ 2025 seventh-round pick (No. 197).
  • Blackhawks acquire the Panthers’ 2026 seventh-round pick.

June 28

  • Mammoth acquire the Avalanche’s 2025 sixth-round pick (No. 182).
  • Predators acquire the Mammoth’s 2026 sixth-round pick.

June 28

  • Oilers acquire the Predators’ 2025 fifth-round pick (No. 131).
  • Predators acquire the Oilers’ 2026 fifth-round pick.

June 28

  • Lightning acquire the Red Wings’ 2025 fourth-round pick (No. 108).
  • Bruins acquire the Lightning’s 2026 fourth-round pick.

June 28

  • Capitals acquire D Declan Chisholm and the Wild’s 2025 sixth-round pick (No. 180).
  • Wild acquire D Chase Priskie and the Capitals’ 2025 fourth-round pick (No. 123).

June 28

  • Senators acquire the Hurricanes’ 2025 third-round pick (No. 93).
  • Capitals acquire the Panthers’ 2025 third-round pick (No. 96) and the Senators’ 2027 seventh-round pick.

June 28

  • Golden Knights acquire the Senators’ 2025 third-round pick (No. 85).
  • Penguins acquire the Capitals’ 2025 third-round pick (No. 91) and the Golden Knights’ 2025 fifth-round pick (No. 154).

June 28

  • Blue Jackets acquire the Red Wings’ 2025 third-round pick (No. 76).
  • Red Wings acquire the Blue Jackets’ 2025 fourth-round pick (No. 109) and the Blue Jackets’ 2026 fourth-round pick.

June 28

  • Canadiens acquire the Bruins’ 2025 third-round pick (No. 69).
  • Bruins acquire the Canucks’ 2025 third-round pick (No. 79) and the Red Wings’ 2025 fourth-round pick (No. 108).

June 28

  • Hurricanes acquire the Predators’ 2025 third-round pick (No. 67).
  • Kings acquire the Hurricanes’ 2025 fourth-round pick (No. 125) and the Hurricanes’ 2026 third-round pick.

June 28

  • Golden Knights acquire the Lightning’s 2025 second-round pick (No. 55).
  • Predators acquire the Golden Knights’ 2025 second-round pick (No. 58) and the Golden Knights’ 2025 fourth-round pick (No. 122).

June 28

  • Red Wings acquire G John Gibson.
  • Ducks acquire G Petr Mrázek, the Red Wings’ 2027 second-round pick, and the Red Wings’ 2026 fourth-round pick.

June 28

  • Penguins acquire D Connor Clifton and the Sabres’ 2025 second-round pick (No. 39).
  • Sabres acquire D Conor Timmins and D Isaac Belliveau.

June 28

  • Kraken acquire the Flyers’ 2025 second-round pick (No. 36) and the Flyers’ 2025 third-round pick (No. 68).
  • Flyers acquire the Kraken’s 2025 second-round pick (No. 38) and the Maple Leafs’ 2025 second-round pick (No. 57).

June 28

  • Senators acquire D Jordan Spence.
  • Kings acquire the Predators’ 2025 third-round pick (No. 67) and the Avalanche’s 2026 sixth-round pick.

June 28

  • Canadiens acquire the Blackhawks’ 2025 second-round pick (No. 34) and the Hurricanes’ 2025 sixth-round pick (No. 189).
  • Hurricanes acquire the Penguins’ 2025 second-round pick (No. 41) and the Canadiens’ 2025 second-round pick (No. 49).

June 27

  • Blackhawks acquire the Hurricanes’ 2025 first-round pick (No. 29).
  • Hurricanes acquire the Blackhawks’ 2025 second-round pick (No. 34), the Stars’ 2025 second-round pick (No. 62), and the Blackhawks’ 2027 fifth-round pick.

June 27

  • Penguins acquire the Kings’ 2025 first-round pick (No. 24).
  • Kings acquire the Oilers’ 2025 first-round pick (No. 31) and the Capitals’ 2025 second-round pick (No. 59).

June 27

  • Predators acquire the Senators’ 2025 first-round pick (No. 21).
  • Senators acquire the Lightning’s 2025 first-round pick (No. 23) and the Predators’ 2025 third-round pick (No. 67).

June 27

  • Flyers acquire the Rangers’ 2025 first-round pick (No. 12).
  • Penguins acquire the Avalanche’s 2025 first-round pick (No. 22) and the Oilers’ 2025 first-round pick (No. 31).

June 27

  • Blue Jackets acquire F Charlie Coyle and F Miles Wood.
  • Avalanche acquire F Gavin Brindley, the Blue Jackets’ 2025 third-round pick (No. 77), and a conditional 2027 second-round pick.
    • Note: the Avalanche will receive the lower of the Blue Jackets’ or Wild’s 2027 second-round picks.

June 27

  • Canadiens acquire D Noah Dobson.
  • Islanders acquire F Emil Heineman, the Flames’ 2025 first-round pick (No. 16), and the Canadiens’ 2025 first-round pick (No. 17).

June 26

  • Capitals acquire F Justin Sourdif.
  • Panthers acquire the Capitals’ 2026 second-round pick and the Capitals’ 2027 sixth-round pick.

June 26

June 26

  • Panthers acquire G Daniil Tarasov.
  • Blue Jackets acquire the Panthers’ 2025 fifth-round pick (No. 160).

June 26

  • Kraken acquire F Frédérick Gaudreau.
  • Wild acquire the Kraken’s 2025 fourth-round pick (No. 102).

June 25

June 25

  • Canucks acquire F Evander Kane.
  • Oilers acquire the Senators’ 2025 fourth-round pick (No. 117).

June 23

  • Flyers acquire F Trevor Zegras.
  • Ducks acquire F Ryan Poehling, the Blue Jackets’ 2025 second-round pick (No. 45), and the Flyers’ 2026 fourth-round pick.

June 21

June 19

  • Kraken acquire F Mason Marchment.
  • Stars acquire their own 2025 fourth-round pick (No. 126) and the Kraken’s 2026 third-round pick.

June 18

  • Predators acquire F Erik Haula.
  • Devils acquire D Jeremy Hanzel and the Predators’ 2025 fourth-round pick (No. 99).

June 13

  • Bruins acquire signing rights to D Victor Söderström.
  • Blackhawks acquire D Ryan Mast and the Bruins’ 2025 seventh-round pick (No. 197).

June 12

  • Ducks acquire F Chris Kreider and their own 2025 fourth-round pick (No. 104).
  • Rangers acquire F Carey Terrance and the Maple Leafs’ 2025 third-round pick (No. 89).

Michael DiPietro Generating Interest

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Goaltender Michael DiPietro has had a rocky development road, but got back on track with an AHL All-Star campaign in the Bruins organization in 2024-25. ESPN’s Kevin Weekes reports the former high-end prospect is generating interest as he heads toward Group VI unrestricted free agency in a few weeks.

If so, DiPietro might be aiming to land somewhere where there’s a potential opening for him to start the season on the NHL roster as a No. 2 option. Jeff Marek of Daily Faceoff reported in March the Bruins were pursuing a contract extension with him, but considering there’s been no apparent forward progress since then, combined with today’s report, it’s clear he desires more of a shot than he’d have next year in Boston behind Jeremy Swayman and Joonas Korpisalo.

A third-round pick by the Canucks in 2017 after winning the Memorial Cup with OHL Windsor, his development quickly stalled after turning pro two years later. He never became more than a fringe No. 3 option in Vancouver and lost nearly an entire year of development in the COVID-laced 2020-21 season, sitting on the taxi squad all year aside from four minor-league appearances.

After three NHL appearances and a few years of average minor-league play, the Canucks traded DiPietro to Boston at the beginning of the 2022-23 season in what looked like nothing more than a swap of AHLers at the time. DiPietro didn’t even manage an AHL role in his first year with the Bruins organization, playing just one game with Providence and spending the rest of the year with ECHL Maine, where he looked somewhat rejuvenated with a .918 SV% in 29 appearances.

A restricted free agent the following summer, the Bruins at least saw enough to tender him a qualifying offer. He signed a fresh two-way deal for the 2023-24 campaign, which saw him lock down a full-time AHL role again and replicate his forward momentum. While still Boston’s fourth-stringer behind Linus Ullmark, Swayman, and Brandon Bussi that year, he managed a strong 2.51 GAA, .918 SV%, 18-9-2 record, and four shutouts in 30 AHL appearances.

With an even stronger 2024-25 campaign, DiPietro’s development is finally on a linear track. The 26-year-old was a First Team All-Star and named the AHL’s top goaltender after superceding Bussi as Providence’s starter and posting a 2.05 GAA, .927 SV%, 26-8-7 record, and four shutouts in 40 games of action.

Goalies generally take longer to develop, and DiPietro’s winding road to this point could just be a victim of that cliché. He benefits from a pretty weak group of UFA netminders whose top options are Jake Allen, Anton Forsberg, and James Reimer. There are more than a few serviceable backups out there and even a legitimate 1B option in Allen still, but all of the options are known commodities at this stage. Aside from the veteran Allen, who was quite good in backup duties for New Jersey this season, DiPietro offers the most upside of anyone available for free.

Magnus Hellberg Signs With SHL’s Djurgårdens IF

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After a middling season in the AHL while on a two-way deal with the Stars, goaltender Magnus Hellberg is heading home to the SHL. Djurgårdens IF announced they’ve signed Hellberg to a three-year deal, bringing him back to Sweden through the 2027-28 season.

Hellberg hasn’t played in the SHL since 2011-12, back when it was called the Elitserien. He was a second-round pick by the Predators in 2011, for a time looking like he could be a long-term backup to Nashville stalwart Pekka Rinne. He was a solid AHL netminder for them, posting a .917 SV% and 2.36 GAA in his first three North American minor-league seasons, but only got one NHL relief appearance before a goalie crunch meant he was traded to the Rangers in 2015 for a sixth-round pick. His tenure in New York at least brought his first NHL start, but he only managed a .882 SV% and 2.44 GAA in three total appearances with the Rangers before reaching Group VI unrestricted free agency in 2017.

He opted for more opportunity overseas instead of trying to climb up an NHL depth chart elsewhere, signing with Kunlun Red Star of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was in the KHL that Hellberg finally established himself as an elite option in a high-level professional league. Across five seasons in China and Russia with Kunlun, SKA St. Petersburg, and HK Sochi, he posted a 2.00 GAA, .927 SV%, 24 shutouts, and an 81-64-14 record in 169 appearances. He was a two-time KHL All-Star and was rostered for Sweden at the 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics, also winning a gold medal at the World Championship in 2018.

That prompted Hellberg to make an NHL return late in the 2021-22 season, signing on with the Red Wings. He’s spent the last few years as a journeyman, making stints as a No. 3 option for Detroit, Ottawa, Seattle (although he never played for them), Pittsburgh, Florida, and Dallas. He saw NHL action in three of those stops (Red Wings, Senators, Penguins), but only put up a .891 SV%, 3.12 GAA and a 7-8-1 record in 22 appearances over three years. He spent all of last season on assignment to AHL Texas after clearing waivers with Dallas, where he recorded a fine but unimpressive 2.69 GAA, .904 SV%, two shutouts, and a 24-14-1 record in 41 games.

Now 34 years old, this is almost definitely the end of the road for Hellberg in the NHL. He’ll aim to rediscover his KHL form with Djurgården, which just gained promotion back to the SHL after three seasons in the second-tier HockeyAllsvenskan league.

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