As of today, the Canadiens hold the 28th pick in the upcoming draft. As a reminder, the reason they don't have the 29th pick is because the Senators will be drafting 32nd as a penalty for the Evgenii Dadonov saga.
The New Jersey Devils’ 2025-26 season ended suddenly, as the team missed the postseason with a 42-37-3 record. After a commanding start, the Devils collapsed when they returned from the Olympic break, resulting in their missing the playoffs.
With the restricted free agents profiled for this upcoming offseason, its time to shift our attention to the unrestricted free agents. The New Jersey Devils didn’t have a lot of pending UFAs to begin with going into the offseason.
I do not at all enjoy making this kind of case, but it is one that needs to be made. Last night, Evgenii Dadonov played his 19th game of the season in the place of the injured Arseny Gritsyuk.
NHL PR: The NHL decided to alter their punishment to the Ottawa Senators and granted them the 32nd pick in the 2026 draft. The Senators were originally stripped of their 2024, 2025 or 2026 first-round picks for the role they played in an Evgenii Dadonov trade of not providing info on Dadonov’s no-trade list.
People love a good mid-round draft pick that pans out, and in the NHL you used to see those fairly often, but that’s obviously partially luck. If the Red Wings thought Nicklas Lidstrom was going to become a top-five defenseman in history, they wouldn’t have waited until the 53rd pick to take him.
Now, with the NHL Trade Deadline in the rearview mirror, it’s time to get you up to date with our second mock draft of 2026.
The NHL will not make the Ottawa Senators forfeit their 2026 first-round draft pick for their role in a cancelled 2022 trade between Vegas and Anaheim involving winger Evgenii Dadonov.
The NHL has announced a modification to the longstanding penalty against the Ottawa Senators stemming from the Evgenii Dadonov trade saga. The trade, which originally included the Vegas Golden Knights in 2021, led to the invalidation of the 2022 Vegas-to-Anaheim deal due to an undisclosed issue with a no-trade clause.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
The National Hockey League announced Thursday they have modified the punishment given to the Ottawa Senators for their role in the botched trade of Evgenii Dadonov between the Vegas Golden Knights and Anaheim Ducks.
A few years ago, the NHL took away a first-round pick from the Ottawa Senators. Why? Because the Sens tried to trade Evgenii Dadonov to the Ducks, even though he had the California team on his no-trade list.
According to a team announcement, the New Jersey Devils have placed Evgenii Dadonov, Luke Glendening, and Maxim Tsyplakov on waivers. If all three players clear, they would have added flexibility on the trade market by tomorrow afternoon, given they can be freely reassigned to the AHL by the acquiring club.
It’s been a difficult stretch of hockey for the Ottawa Senators, who since Dec. 21 have lost nine of 13 games and have fallen back in the playoff hunt in the Eastern Conference.
It has been a tough season for Devils winger Evgenii Dadonov. He missed 17 games due to a hand injury sustained in his debut with the team last month.
A tough blow for one of the New Jersey Devils‘ top veterans. On Saturday, team reporter Amanda Stein revealed that forward Evgenii Dadonov underwent further imaging on his injured hand, revealing that he has a fracture.
The New Jersey Devils did not just sign Connor Brown on the first day of free agency. On top of signing Brown, the Devils also signed forward Evgenii Dadonov to a one-year contract with an average annual value (AAV) of $1 million.
The Senators had their fingers rapped in 2023 after the long and bizarre Evgenii Dadonov saga. In 2021, Ottawa traded the Russian to Vegas without providing its list of teams to which he would refuse to be traded.
The Columbus Blue Jackets and Dallas Stars each came into Sunday’s game on winning streaks. It was the Stars who found a way to extend their winning streak to five.
Veteran winger Evgenii Dadonov proved to be a valuable addition for the Stars at the 2022 trade deadline, adding another offensive threat to a deep roster.
Will the Dallas Stars finally win on home ice for the first time this postseason or lose another tight matchup?
Dallas Stars forward Evgenii Dadonov is sidelined indefinitely due to a lower-body fracture, coach Pete DeBoer announced Tuesday. Dadonov logged just 8:35 of ice time in the Stars' 3-2 win against the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday.
The Montreal Canadians and Vegas Golden Knights completed a trade on Thursday, swapping defenseman Shea Weber in exchange for forward Evgenii Dadonov.
Forward Evgenii Dadonov and the Vegas Golden Knights will do well to embrace the lesson taught in the original "Godfather" movie: It's not personal.
The NHL announced Wednesday afternoon the trade of right-wing Evgenii Dadonov from the Las Vegas Golden Knights to the Anaheim Ducks has officially been canceled.
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