The Seattle Kraken have spent the past several months searching for a star, and the Vancouver Canucks appear increasingly motivated to move one. Between the two Pacific Northwest clubs sits Shane Wright, a 22-year-old centre whose representatives have asked Seattle to find him a new team.
The Nashville Predators‘ sixth all-time leading scorer has officially hung up his skates. On Thursday, center Ryan Johansen announced his retirement from professional hockey after a 13-year career in the NHL.
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.
The nearly year-long legal battle between forward Ryan Johansen and the Philadelphia Flyers has ended with a decisive win for the team. An NHL arbitrator
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.
We have an update on the Ryan Johansen vs. Philadelphia Flyers situation: there is no update. Well, that’s not entirely true. The skinny is that the Flyers’ Johansen saga won’t be coming to an immediate solution, so we are still a ways away from getting a verdict there.
DENVER — The Avalanche fell to 0-2 after another uninspiring goaltending performance at Ball Arena on Saturday. Jack Johnson and the Columbus Blue Jackets scored five times before the game was halfway through and held the lead the rest of the way, defeating Colorado 6-4.
The NHL Players’ Association (NHLPA) has officially filed a grievance on behalf of Ryan Johansen, challenging the Philadelphia Flyers’ decision to terminate his contract in August.
Philadelphia acquired him from the Avalanche before the trade deadline, taking on his reduced $4M cap hit to provide relief in the deal that sent defenseman Sean Walker to Colorado.
It appears that Ryan Johansen is done with the Philadelphia Flyers before he even started. At Friday’s exit interviews, Flyers general manager Danny Briere shed some light on Johansen’s situation, and his comments were far from reassuring.
Ryan Johansen has yet to play a game in the Philadelphia Flyers organization, and, apparently, he is not going to be joining the Lehigh Valley Phantoms in the AHL just yet, either.
The NHL trade deadline always raises plenty of questions about what teams can or cannot do contract-wise, as well as how certain moves impact different teams.
When the Colorado Avalanche traded for Ryan Johansen this offseason, the team was hoping he could potentially fill the void at the second-line center spot.
When the Colorado Avalanche went and acquired Ryan Johansen over the summer, I wasn’t immediately convinced he was the answer at second line center. After watching tape of him in Nashville, I was even more sure that he wasn’t going to get the job done.
It was clear that soon-to-be 31-year-old Ryan Johansen just didn’t fit into the rebuild plans of incoming Nashville Predators general manager Barry Trotz.