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Parker Kelly Receives Two-Game Suspension

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While it was a busy day on the trade front on Friday, the Department of Player Safety was busy as well.  On top of handing out three fines, they also announced that Senators center Parker Kelly received a two-game suspension for an illegal check to the head on Kings defenseman Andreas Englund.

The incident occurred late in the third period of Thursday night’s matchup.  He received a two-minute minor for an illegal check to the head on the play while Englund also received a minor for roughing as well.

It’s the first suspension of Kelly’s career and he’ll forfeit a little under $8K which goes to the Players’ Emergency Assistance Fund.  Kelly will miss tonight’s game against San Jose and Tuesday’s contest versus Pittsburgh.  Ottawa shouldn’t need to recall a player to take his place on the roster with their addition of Boris Katchouk off waivers yesterday so they won’t need to use one of their four post-deadline regular recalls.

2024 Trade Deadline Day Recap

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With the preceding 48 hours causing enough excitement in their own right, the 2024 Trade Deadline still brought some action to the table. The day saw some rumored names such as Tyler Toffoli, Jason Zucker, and Matt Dumba all find new homes, while star player Tomas Hertl was moved to a divisional rival in a surprising blockbuster. Below is a complete list of the 23 trades made on March 8th alone:

Blue Jackets Acquire Malcolm Subban
Trade Details: St. Louis Blues send G Malcolm Subban to Columbus Blue Jackets for future considerations.

Hurricanes Acquire Evgeny Kuznetsov
Trade Details: Washington Capitals send F Evgeny Kuznetsov to Carolina Hurricanes for a third-round pick in 2025 (CAR). Washington also retained $3.9MM (50%) of Kuznetsov’s contract.

Panthers Acquire Kyle Okposo
Trade Details: Buffalo Sabres send F Kyle Okposo to Florida Panthers for D Calle Sjalin and a conditional seventh-round pick in 2024 (FLA). Conditional selection will upgrade to a fifth-round pick in 2024 if Florida wins the Stanley Cup.

Ducks Acquire Ben Meyers
Trade Details: Colorado Avalanche send F Ben Meyers to Anaheim Ducks for a fifth-round pick in 2024 (ANA).

Rangers Acquire Chad Ruhwedel
Trade Details: Pittsburgh Penguins send D Chad Ruhwedel to New York Rangers for a fourth-round pick in 2027 (NYR).

Rangers, Wild Swap Turner Elson For Nic Petan
Trade Details: Minnesota Wild send F Nic Petan to New York Rangers for F Turner Elson.

Jets Acquire Tyler Toffoli
Trade Details: New Jersey Devils send F Tyler Toffoli to Winnipeg Jets for a third-round pick in 2024 (WPG) and a second-round pick in 2025 (WPG). New Jersey also retained $2.125MM (50%) of Toffoli’s contract.

Red Wings Send Klim Kostin To Sharks, Acquire Radim Simek
Trade Details: Detroit Red Wings send F Klim Kostin to San Jose Sharks for D Radim Simek and a seventh-round pick in 2024 (NJ).

Predators Acquire Jason Zucker
Trade Details: Arizona Coyotes send F Jason Zucker to Nashville Predators for a sixth-round pick in 2024 (DAL).

Bruins Acquire Pat Maroon
Trade Details: Minnesota Wild send F Pat Maroon to Boston Bruins for F Luke Toporowski and a conditional sixth-round pick in 2026 (BOS). Conditional selection will be sent to the Wild if Maroon plays one game in the 2023-24 Stanley Cup playoffs.

Sabres Send Erik Johnson To Flyers
Trade Details: Buffalo Sabres send D Erik Johnson to Philadelphia Flyers for fourth-round pick in 2024 (PHI).

Philadelphia Trades Wade Allison To Nashville For Denis Gurianov
Trade Details: Nashville Predators send F Denis Gurianov to Philadelphia Flyers for F Wade Allison.

Bruins Acquire Andrew Peeke
Trade Details: Columbus Blue Jackets send D Andrew Peeke to Boston Bruins for D Jakub Zboril and a third-round pick in 2027 (BOS).

Penguins Trade Magnus Hellberg To Panthers
Trade Details: Pittsburgh Penguins send G Magnus Hellberg to Florida Panthers for G Ludovic Waeber and a seventh-round pick in 2025 (FLA).

Devils Acquire Jake Allen
Trade Details: Montreal Canadiens send G Jake Allen to New Jersey Devils for a conditional third-round pick in 2025 (NJ). Conditional selection will upgrade to a second-round pick in 2025 if Allen plays in 40 or more games next season and the team he is rostered on makes the 2024-25 Stanley Cup playoffs. Montreal also retained $1.925MM (50%) of Allen’s contract.

Lightning Acquire Matt Dumba
Trade Details: Arizona Coyotes send D Matt Dumba and a seventh-round pick in 2025 (ARZ) to Tampa Bay Lightning for a fifth-round pick in 2027 (TB).

Flames Acquire Nikita Okhotiuk From Sharks
Trade Details: San Jose Sharks send D Nikita Okhotyuk to Calgary Flames for a conditional fifth-round pick in 2024 (CHI). Conditional selection will be the better of the two 2024 fifth-round selections that Chicago owns.

Sabres Send Devin Cooley To Sharks For Draft Pick
Trade Details: Buffalo Sabres send G Devin Cooley to San Jose Sharks for a seventh-round pick in 2025 (WSH).

Rangers Acquire Jack Roslovic
Trade Details: Columbus Blue Jackets send F Jack Roslovic to New York Rangers for a conditional fourth-round pick in 2026 (NYR). Conditional selection upgrades to a third-round pick in 2026 if the Rangers make it to this year’s Stanley Cup Final and Roslovic plays in at least 50% of the games.

Sharks Trade Kaapo Kahkonen To Devils
Trade Details: San Jose Sharks send G Kaapo Kahkonen to New Jersey Devils for G Vitek Vanecek and a seventh-round pick in 2025 (NJ).

Golden Knights Acquire Tomas Hertl
Trade Details: San Jose Sharks send F Tomas Hertl, a third-round pick in 2025 (SJ), and a third-round pick in 2027 (SJ) to Vegas Golden Knights for F David Edstrom and a first-round pick in 2025 (VGK). San Jose also retained $1.3875MM (17.1%) of Hertl’s contract.

Jets Acquire Colin Miller From Devils
Trade Details: New Jersey Devils send D Colin Miller to Winnipeg Jets for a fourth-round pick in 2026 (WPG).

Maple Leafs Acquire Connor Dewar
Trade Details: Minnesota Wild send F Connor Dewar to Toronto Maple Leafs for F Dmitry Ovchinnikov and a fourth-round pick in 2026 (TOR).

Injury Notes: Trouba, Forbort, Joshua

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Even with some positive developments on the trade front this afternoon, the New York Rangers have some negative news as well, as Mollie Walker of the New York Post reports that defenseman Jacob Trouba will be out for the next two to three weeks. With some line shuffling set to take place, new deadline pickup Chad Ruhwedel should find his way into the lineup rather quickly on the right side.

This marks the first significant injury for Trouba during the regular season in the last three years, as he sustained two full seasons in 2021-22, and 2022-23. Trouba did have an undisclosed injury earlier this year, but it was largely insignificant as it only kept him out for three days.

In now his fifth season with the Rangers, Trouba is once again performing at his typical pace. In 60 games this year, he has scored three goals and 22 points in total and is averaging just under three hits a night.

Other injury notes:

  • Indicating that his season might have come to an end, Joe Haggerty of the Boston Sports Journal is reporting that Boston Bruins’ defenseman Derek Forbort has been placed on the team’s long-term injured reserve. Forbort was playing through two significant injuries that have limited him to only 35 games on the year.
  • Jeff Patterson of Canucks Army reports that Vancouver Canucks’ forward Dakota Joshua will at most miss the next two weeks for the team. Thankfully, the Canucks only have five games over the next 14 days, so Joshua shouldn’t miss too much action down the stretch. Having the most productive season of his career up to this point, Joshua has played in 53 games for Vancouver so far this year, scoring 13 goals and 26 points overall.

Logan Couture Out For Season With Groin Injury

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San Jose Sharks captain Logan Couture has announced that he won’t play again this season due to a groin injury in a press conference with team media, per Sheng Peng of San Jose Hockey Now.

Couture didn’t make his season debut until January 20th, missing the season’s first half with a lower-body injury. He played in just six games, and recorded just one assist, before re-aggravating the injury and once again exiting the lineup. Couture didn’t play any games outside of the last two weeks of January. His season now ends before it really got started, marking the first year Couture has missed since making his NHL debut in 2009-10.

The 15-year-pro Couture quickly established himself as a backbone of the Sharks lineup, scoring 32 goals and 56 points in the 2010-11 season, his first full year in the NHL. He scored 31 goals and 65 points in the subsequent season – and has since crossed the 30-goal mark just one additional time, in 2017-18, and crossed the 60-point mark four more times, including when he scored a career-high 70 points in 2018-19.

Couture has served as San Jose’s captain for each of the last five seasons after four seasons as an alternate captain, taking over the role from Joe Pavelski. Couture has seen it all in his 933 career games with the Sharks, going from a fringe playoff contender, to a Stanley Cup hopeful, and then to one of the league’s bottom-dwellers over the course of the 2010’s. He ranks fourth in all-time scoring among Sharks, with 701 career points, and fifth in all-time games played. He is signed through the end of the 2026-27 season, carrying an $8MM cap hit, and will aim to play in his 1,000th NHL game when he returns next season.

AHL Shuffle: 3/8/24

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It’s the NHL Trade Deadline and all attention is trained on which key assets will be moved around. But NHL teams will also have to keep their minor league rosters in mind, as players will need to be on an AHL roster by 2 p.m. CT to play in the Calder Cup Playoffs. That’s led to a long list of minor league loans and paper transactions, with teams keeping the shelves of their AHL rosters stocked. Most of these players have already been or will be recalled by their teams later. This listing of transactions is sourced from CapFriendly. As always, we’ll keep track of those transactions here:

  • The Kraken recalled defenseman Cale Fleury from AHL Coachella Valley. He comes up in the wake of an upper-body injury to top-pairing blue-liner Vince Dunn and will remain on the roster as an extra defenseman until Dunn is ready to return. Ryker Evans was returned to Coachella Valley to make him eligible to play in the Calder Cup Playoffs.
  • The Canucks reassigned and later recalled Vasily Podkolzin from AHL Abbotsford to make him eligible to play for the lower-level Canucks in the AHL postseason.
  • The Flames assigned defenseman Jordan Oesterle to AHL Calgary after he cleared waivers Friday.
  • The Bruins assigned Marc McLaughlin to AHL Providence to clear cap space necessary to acquire Pat Maroon and Andrew Peeke via trades today. Defenseman Mason Lohrei was also assigned to Providence, along with winger Justin Brazeau.
  • The Lightning assigned Maxwell Crozier and Emil Martinsen Lilleberg to AHL Syracuse. They could be in for a more permanent stay after Tampa picked up Mathew Dumba from the Coyotes via trade today.
  • The Kings assigned forwards Alex Turcotte and Samuel Fagemo, as well as defensemen Brandt Clarke and Jacob Moverare, to AHL Ontario to make them eligible to play for the Reign in the Calder Cup Playoffs. Turcotte and Moverare were later recalled.
  • The Golden Knights assigned forwards Byron Froese and Mason Morelli to AHL Henderson to clear cap space for today’s acquisition of Tomáš Hertl from the Sharks.
  • The Blackhawks assigned defensemen Louis Crevier and Isaak Phillips, as well as forward Zach Sanford, to AHL Rockford to make them eligible to play in the Calder Cup Playoffs.
  • The Rangers reassigned and later recalled forwards Adam Edstrom and Matt Rempe from AHL Hartford to make him eligible to play in the Calder Cup Playoffs.
  • The Flyers assigned defenseman Adam Ginning to AHL Lehigh Valley after picking up veteran blue-liner Erik Johnson from the Sabres.
  • The Devils assigned goaltenders Nico Daws and Akira Schmid to AHL Utica after acquiring Jake Allen and Kaapo Kähkönen in separate trades.
  • The Flames assigned wingers Matthew Coronato and Jakob Pelletier to AHL Calgary to make them eligible to play in the Calder Cup Playoffs.
  • The Avalanche reassigned and later recalled goaltender Justus Annunen from AHL Colorado to make him eligible to play in the Calder Cup Playoffs.
  • The Maple Leafs reassigned and later recalled winger Matthew Knies from AHL Toronto to make him eligible to play in the Calder Cup Playoffs.
  • The Blue Jackets recalled forward Trey Fix-Wolansky from AHL Cleveland after trading Jack Roslovic to the Rangers.
  • The Canadiens assigned forward Joshua Roy and defenseman Jayden Struble to AHL Laval to make them eligible to play in the Calder Cup Playoffs.
  • The Sabres recalled forward Tyson Jost and defenseman Kale Clague from AHL Rochester after trading away Johnson and Kyle Okposo. Winger Lukas Rousek and defenseman Ryan Johnson were assigned to Rochester to make them eligible to play in the Calder Cup Playoffs.
  • The Capitals reassigned and later recalled goaltender Hunter Shepard and forwards Hendrix Lapierre and Ivan Miroshnichenko from AHL Hershey to make them eligible to play in the Calder Cup Playoffs.
  • The Ducks sent forward Glenn Gawdin to AHL San Diego to make him eligible to play in the Calder Cup Playoffs.
  • The Coyotes assigned winger Dylan Guenther and defenseman Michael Kesselring to AHL Tucson to make them eligible to play in the Calder Cup Playoffs.
  • The Sharks assigned goaltender Magnus Chrona and center Thomas Bordeleau to AHL San Jose to make them eligible to play in the Calder Cup Playoffs.

This page will be updated throughout the day.

Predators Sign Dante Fabbro, Two Others To Extensions

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Predators GM Barry Trotz has announced the signings of defenseman Dante Fabbro and forward Mark Jankowski to one-year and two-year extensions, respectively (via Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet). Fabbro’s deal sees him earn $2.5MM next season, per a team release, and is paid entirely in base salary. Jankowski’s deal will pay him $775K in 2024-25 and $825K in 2025-26, per the team, translating to an $800K cap hit. Additionally, the team has signed undrafted free agent goaltender Gustavs Grigals to a one-year, two-way deal for the remainder of the season, worth $775K at the NHL level.

Fabbro and Jankowski will be UFAs at the end of their respective deals. Nashville was set for a potential arbitration hearing with Fabbro if he did not re-sign before the summer, while Jankowski was a pending UFA upon completion of the one-year, $775K extension he signed nearly a year ago.

The Predators drafted Fabbro, 25, with the 17th overall pick in 2016. He turned pro at the end of the 2018-19 campaign and has since appeared in 304 games for the Preds, recording 71 points and a +11 rating while averaging 18:10 per game. He’s slipped to a more limited role this year, averaging only 16:34, but he’s been effective in that sheltered even-strength role with 12 points, a +11 rating, and career-best possession numbers in 51 games.

Oddly enough, that career-best-showing hasn’t earned him the full trust of head coach Andrew Brunette. Fabbro was a healthy scratch for Nashville’s season opener and has been on 12 other occasions this season as part of a rotation with Tyson Barrie, Alexandre Carrier, Jeremy Lauzon, and Luke Schenn for depth minutes.

Jankowski, 29, has spent the last two seasons in the Predators organization. The 2012 first-round pick stayed mostly in the NHL in 2022-23, recording seven goals and 12 points in 50 games, but has spent most of this year on assignment to AHL Milwaukee. He’s been a top performer there, notching 47 points and a +29 rating in 40 games, which has earned him some more NHL ice as of late. Aside from a few paper transactions, he’s stayed on the roster since Feb. 12 and has two goals and an assist in 14 NHL contests.

A one-way deal indicates the Predators envision Jankowski on next season’s opening night roster, but if he doesn’t make the cut, he’d have to clear waivers. The Hamilton, Ontario, native has also spent time with the Flames, Penguins and Sabres over his eight-year, 336-game NHL career.

By inking Grigals to an NHL contract, the Predators add a potential Black Ace for the postseason and give themselves the option to retain his exclusive signing rights with a qualifying offer this summer. The 25-year-old Latvian has spent most of the season with their ECHL affiliate, the Atlanta Gladiators, where he has a 3.68 GAA, .898 SV%, 7-15-0 record, and one shutout in 26 games. He fared poorly in his lone AHL showing with Milwaukee on New Year’s Eve, posting a .846 SV% in a 4-3 loss to the Rockford IceHogs. He’s in his first professional season after four seasons with the University of Alaska-Fairbanks and a graduate transfer season with UMass-Lowell last year.

Bruins Sign Joey Abate To Two-Way Deal

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The Bruins have signed forward Joey Abate to a one-year, two-way contract for the remainder of the season, a team release states. Abate’s deal carries a cap hit and NHL salary of $775K, however, the team did not disclose his minor-league pay.

Abate lands his first NHL deal after signing on with the AHL’s Providence Bruins in 2022. At least one other team had interest in signing Abate in recent days, New England Hockey Journal’s Mark Divver reports.

A graduate of the University of Nebraska-Omaha program, Abate has settled into a bottom-six bruiser role on the Bruins’ farm. Since joining Providence last season, Abate has five goals, 16 points, and 166 PIMs with a -11 rating in 75 games. He’s provided a more fair amount of secondary scoring this year, posting two goals and 10 points in 40 games, although it’s still not enough to suggest the 25-year-old winger will be anything more than a fourth-line enforcer in the NHL.

The Bloomington, Illinois, native will be an RFA this summer. He’ll also have arbitration rights because he’s logged at least one season of professional experience and signed his first contract after the age of 24.

Sabres Send Devin Cooley To Sharks For Draft Pick

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The Buffalo Sabres have acquired a 2025 seventh-round draft pick from the San Jose Sharks in return for goaltender Devin Cooley.

Cooley, 26, has been a career minor-leaguer, totaling 66 appearances in the AHL since making his professional debut in the 2020-21 season. That includes the 14 games he’s appeared in with the Rochester Americans this season, where he’s managed six wings and a .891 save percentage. That brings Cooley’s career totals in the AHL up to 32 wins and a .900 save percentage. He has also posted 14 wins and a .916 in 25 ECHL games.

San Jose’s last-minute acquisition of Cooley corresponds with their swapping of Kaapo Kahkonen and Vitek Vanecek. Devils team reporter James Nichols reported that Vanecek could miss the rest of the season with a lower-body injury, some bad news for a Sharks team already down Mackenzie Blackwood to a groin injury. That means the San Jose Sharks will have to ice Magnus Chrona and Cooley as their top two options. Interestingly, the pair of rookie NHL goalies have experience playing together – with a senior-year Cooley backing up a freshman-year Chrona at the University of Denver in the 2019-20 season. The pair combined for 20 wins, before Cooley moved to the pros in 2020-21. Chrona is now in his first pro season, boasting an .830 save percentage in his first four NHL games and a .892 in his first 24 AHL games.

Sharks Trade Kaapo Kahkonen To Devils

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The San Jose Sharks and New Jersey Devils have completed a goalie swap, sending Kaapo Kahkonen to New Jersey and Vitek Vanecek to San Jose, per ESPN’s Kevin Weekes. The Sharks will also be receiving a 2025 seventh-round pick.

While he’s seen his rights traded, Vanecek may need to wait to make his debut with the Sharks, with Devils team reporter James Nichols reporting that he could miss the remainder of the season with injury. The Devils placed Vanecek on injured reserve with a lower-body injury on February 20th, though his last appearance was on February 10th. He’s since missed New Jersey’s last 13 games.

This could place the Sharks in a unique situation, now without their de facto starter in Kahkonen and Mackenzie Blackwood, who has landed on injured reserve with a groin injury. That leaves the Sharks with Magnus Chrona – a 23-year-old in his first professional season – as their top option. Chrona has played in four NHL games already this season, allowing 17 goals on 100 shots and yet to record his first win. Chrona has moved to the pros after spending the last four years at the University of Denver. He’s accomplished the impressive feat of playing in the ECHL, AHL, and NHL all in one season, ultimately recording five wings and saving 821 of the 922 shots he’s faced, good for a .890 save percentage between the three leagues.

Chrona will likely be backed up by Devin Cooley, who the Sharks acquired from the Buffalo Sabres right at the trade deadline, sending a 2025 seventh-round pick the other way. Cooley, 26, carries more pro experience than Chrona, having played in the minor leagues since the 2020-21 season, but he has yet to make his NHL debut. He’s spent the entirety of the 2023-24 season in the AHL, recording six win and a .891 save percentage in 14 games. Cooley is also an alum of the University of Denver, serving as Chrona’s backup in the 2019-20 season.

While San Jose’s situation is certainly more dire, the Devils will also be faced with a brand new goaltending duo, with Kahkonen likely slotting into the starting role ahead of fellow newcomer Jake Allen. New Jersey sent a third-round pick to the Montreal Canadiens for the veteran Allen. Kahkonen has faced a barrage of shots in San Jose, posting six wins and a .895 save percentage in 31 games, while facing an average of 32 shots. Allen’s stat-line has been similar this season, posting six wins of his own and a .891 save percentage in 21 games. He’s seeing a slight decline in his effectiveness, posting an .891 save percentage last season  – the first time he’s posted a save percentage below .900 in his 12-year career. Together, Kahkonen and Allen will look to lift New Jersey back into a playoff spot, after ineffective goaltending and a bad case of injuries pushed the team down the standings.

Flames Sign Kevin Rooney To Extension

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The Flames have inked pending UFA center Kevin Rooney to a one-year, $1.3MM extension, per a team announcement.

Rooney didn’t make his season debut until February 6th, missing the first four months of the season after undergoing shoulder surgery. He’s since slotted into Calgary’s fourth-line center role, recording one point in 13 games – though he hasn’t scored in 11 games – while averaging over 10-and-a-half minutes of ice time each game. Rooney also played in four AHL games during a conditioning stint, scoring one goal. It’s his first year back in a full-time NHL role after spending much of last season in the minors, playing in 51 AHL games and scoring 17 points. It was his first extended stint in the AHL since the 2018-19 season.

Rooney has totaled 240 career games in the NHL, scoring 25 goals and 47 points. He joined the Flames in free agency ahead of the 2022-23 season, signing a two-year, $2.6MM contract. His new deal keeps his cap hit the same, extending him through the end of next year. While the extension shows Calgary’s affinity for Rooney, he’ll still need to find an extra edge if he wants to maintain his lineup spot when Connor Zary and A.J. Greer return from injury, and Martin Pospisil returns from a suspension.

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