3:04 PM ET Detroit Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin has signed an eight-year extension with an $8.7 million average annual value, the team announced Wednesday. Larkin, 26, leads the Red Wings in scoring this season with 22 goals and 35 assists for 57 points in 59 games. In 563 career NHL games over eight seasons,
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1:55 PM ET The Washington Capitals continued to retool Wednesday, trading forward Lars Eller to the Colorado Avalanche for a 2025 second-round draft choice. The Capitals will retain 31% of Eller’s $3.5 million salary cap hit. Eller, 33, has been a consistent veteran presence for the Capitals since he was traded to Washington from Montreal
10:33 AM ET Two-time Stanley Cup-winning goaltender Jonathan Quick has been traded to the Columbus Blue Jackets. Quick was dealt to Columbus along with a conditional first-round pick in 2023 and a third-round pick in 2024 for defenseman Vladislav Gavrikov and goaltender Joonas Korpisalo, the teams announced Wednesday. The first-round pick is conditional on the
7:00 AM ET For the record, the 2023 NHL trade deadline is still scheduled for Friday, March 3, even if most of the league has decided to get their holiday shopping done early. According to CapFriendly, the average number of trades made in the 14 days leading to the trade deadline was 17.6 over the
6:34 PM ET The Edmonton Oilers made their NHL trade deadline splash on Tuesday by acquiring defenseman Mattias Ekholm from the Nashville Predators, the teams announced. The Oilers are trading defenseman Tyson Barrie, prospect Reid Schaefer, a 2023 first-round pick and a 2024 fourth-round pick for Ekholm, a 32-year-old defenseman who has spent his 12-season
5:56 PM ET What was already an active day for the Toronto Maple Leafs was even busier Tuesday when they reacquired defenseman Luke Schenn in a trade with the Vancouver Canucks. Getting Schenn, whom the Maple Leafs drafted with the No. 5 overall pick back in 2008, meant Toronto parted with a 2023 third-round pick
5:07 PM ET The Toronto Maple Leafs kept busy Tuesday, trading defenseman Rasmus Sandin to the Washington Capitals in exchange for defenseman Erik Gustafsson and a 2023 first-round draft choice. Sandin was on the ice for Toronto’s practice in Seattle on Tuesday afternoon when video showed he was escorted away from the session by a
2:58 PM ET The Chicago Blackhawks have agreed to send star winger Patrick Kane to the New York Rangers, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. In return, the Rangers are sending two draft picks to Chicago — a 2023 second-round pick, which carries conditions to improve to a first-round selection, as well as a 2023 fourth-round
4:04 PM ET The Washington Capitals continue to unload players ahead of Friday’s trade deadline, sending forward Marcus Johansson to the Minnesota Wild for a 2024 third-round draft choice Tuesday. Johansson has 13 goals and 28 points in 60 games with Washington this season. A solid two-way forward, he projects to take on a middle-six
2:35 PM ET New York Rangers defenseman K’Andre Miller on Tuesday was suspended three games for unsportsmanlike conduct following an incident in which he spit in the face of Los Angeles Kings defender Drew Doughty, the NHL Player Safety department announced Tuesday. A scuffle broke out around the 16:37 mark of the first period of