With Friday's news that the New Jersey Devils will be without Jack Hughes for at least one game due to a freak accident at a team dinner, the Devils needed another body for their upcoming game against the Washington Capitals.
Shane Lachance may not be starting the season in New Jersey, but he’s quickly proving to be one to watch. The 22-year-old winger made a strong impression throughout training camp and the preseason, showcasing a relentless mix of effort, size, and physicality that briefly earned him a spot on the New Jersey Devils’ 2025–26 opening night roster.
Here are your links for today: Goals from Nico Hischier and Shane Lachance sent one half of Sunday’s split-squad games to overtime, but the Capitals took the contest in a shootout, 3-2.
Training camp is upon us, and this is the time of year, theoretically, for competition. NHL jobs are on the line, players are competing against each other for those opportunities, and camp serves as a larger setting for “may the best man win the job”.
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.
On Mar. 4, 2025, the New Jersey Devils acquired Edmonton Oilers‘ left wing prospect Shane LaChance in exchange for facilitating a trade between the Oilers and Boston Bruins for Trent Frederic.
The New Jersey Devils signed forward Shane Lachance to an entry-level deal on Sunday, according to Daily Faceoff hockey insider Frank Seravalli. Terms of the deal are unknown as of the publishing of this story.
Former Edmonton Oilers prospect Shane Lachance is expected to sign an entry-level contract with the New Jersey Devils, Daily Faceoff’s Frank Seravalli reported Monday.
The 2025 NHL trade deadline has proven one thing: it’s a seller’s market. Let’s recap the moves so far: It started with the Ryan Lindgren trade. In exchange for Lindgren, the New York Rangers received a 2025 second—and fourth-round pick.
The Oilers traded for Bruins forward Trent Frederic today, and in doing so offloaded prospect Shane LaChance, who reportedly had no interest in signing with Edmonton.
The Boston Bruins, Edmonton Oilers and New Jersey Devils combined for a massive three-team trade Tuesday involving Trent Frederic. At first, not many details were released beside the fact that the Boston Bruins were trading both Trent Frederic and Max Jones to the Edmonton Oilers.
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 Edmonton Oilers took a chance on Shane Lachance in the 2021 NHL Draft, selecting him 186th overall in the sixth round. Now three years later, the Oilers’ decision to draft Lachance appears to have been an incredibly smart one.
A note about the criteria of to be included in this countdown. The player must be 25 or younger when the season starts and he must have played less than 50 NHL games.
Boston University freshman left wing Shane Lachance is a third generation Terrier. Lachance will attempt to become the third family member to hoist the Beanpot Trophy when the No.