The St. Louis Blues have signed Jimmy Snuggerud to a 3-year entry-level contract.
Snuggerud was the Blues 1st round pick (23rd overall) in 2022.
The winger had 24 goals and 27 assists in 40 games for the University of Minnesota this season.
Snuggerud will join the Blues for practice on Monday, presumably that means that his entry-level contract will start this season, and not 2025-26.
The Washington Capitals have re-signed Dylan McIlrath to a 2-year contract extension with a $800,000 cap hit. The salary in both seasons is 1-way.
McIlrath, 32, has been in the Capitals organization since 2022-23, winning two AHL Championships while serving as the captain of the Hershey Bears.
McIlrath has played in 20 games for the Capitals over the past 3 seasons, putting up 4 assists.
The Philadelphia Flyers have fired John Tortorella as head coach.
After Tuesday night’s decisive loss against Toronto, Tortorella said:
“This falls on me. I’m not really interested in learning how to coach in this type of season, where we’re at right now. But I have to do a better job. So this falls on me, getting the team prepared to play the proper way until we get to the end.”
Associate coach Brad Shaw will take over as interim head coach.
The Washington Capitals have re-signed Jakob Chychrun to an 8-year contract extension with a cap hit of $9 million.
Chychrun, 26, has 18 goals and 25 assists in 65 games for the Capitals this season.
The Capitals acquired Chychrun from the Ottawa Senators last June in exchange for Matt Roy and a 3rd round pick. Chychrun was set to be a UFA this summer.
The Vegas Golden Knights have re-signed Adin Hill to a 6-year contract extension with a cap hit of $6.25 million.
Hill, 28, is in the last season of a 2-year contract with a $4.9 million cap hit. He signed that deal after the Golden Knights won the 2023 Stanley Cup.
Hill is 24-11-4 with a 0.906 SV% this season.
The New York Rangers have re-signed Jonathan Quick to a 1-year contract worth $1.55 million.
The contract also contains $300,000 in potential performance bonuses, however the only bonus that appears mildly attainable without an injury to starter Igor Shesterkin is $75,000 for 20 starts with a SV% of 0.915 or better.
Quick, 39, is 9-6-2 with a 0.896 SV% this season for the Rangers.
Mikko Rantanen was traded to the Dallas Stars yesterday, just over a month since being acquired from the Carolina Hurricanes. Now that the dust has settled around the trade, a number of interesting details about the whole process has come out.
On TSN’s Trade Centre broadcast yesterday, Bob McKenzie mentioned that the Toronto Maple Leafs would be a destination that Rantanen would consider signing long-term with. Today, Elliotte Friedman reports that the Hurricanes asked for Mitch Marner in a trade. Presumably because they haven’t been able to get Marner signed as of yet, and they think they’d have an easier time signing Rantanen, the Leafs considered it and took it to Marner. Marner would not waive his no-trade clause to move to Carolina, so that idea ended there.
With Marner not an option, Nick Kypreos reported that the Leafs offer for Rantanen was Easton Cowan, Fraser Minten and two 1st round picks. Carolina decided to go with the Dallas offer and the Leafs eventually traded Minten and their 2026 and 2027 1st round picks to get Brandon Carlo and Scott Laughton.
One more tidbit that came out in the aftermath: Elliotte Friedman reported on the 32 Thoughts Podcast that prior to being traded to Carolina, Rantanen was asked if he would consider signing with the Hurricanes. Rantanen and his camp, apparently believing the question not to be legitimate and rather to be Colorado playing hardball, answered that he would consider signing with the Hurricanes. When the question proved legitimate by the trade going down, Rantanen was taken aback and wasn’t prepared to sign with the Hurricanes in his few weeks there.
The Ottawa Senators have acquired Fabian Zetterlund, Tristen Robins and a 4th round pick from the San Jose Sharks in exchange for Zack Ostapchuk, Noah Gregor and a 2025 2nd round pick.
Zetterlund, 25, has 17 goals and 19 assists in 64 games this season. He has 1 more RFA season left after 2024-25.