UFA Taylor Hall has picked his new team.
Sunday night, the 2018 NHL MVP inked a one-year, $8 million contract with the Buffalo Sabres, opting to bet on himself and become a UFA once again next year. Hall finished last season with the Arizona Coyotes after a midseason trade with the New Jersey Devils.
The 28-year-old had 52 points (16g, 36a) in 65 games.
The biggest trade of the season has just happened. The New Jersey Devils have traded forward Taylor Hall to the Arizona Coyotes for a conditional first-round draft pick, a second conditional pick, and prospects.
By Peter Hassett 12 months ago
Taylor Hall is a magnet for high draft picks. It doesn’t matter whether he’s with the Edmonton Oilers, who selected him first overall in the 2010 draft, or the New Jersey Devils, who got Hall in a one-for-one trade in exchange for Adam Larsson in 2016. The teams Hall has played for, in the nine years since he was drafted, have gotten five first-overall picks.
On Tuesday night, the New Jersey Devils jumped from third to first overall in the 2019 draft–just like Taylor Hall predicted.
By Brennin Weiswerda 2 years ago
Dmitry Orlov is one of the best hitters in the NHL, and Thursday night against the New Jersey Devils, the Russian defenseman laid out Taylor Hall with a monster hit.
The reigning Hart Trophy-winner tried to dipsy-doo around Orly to the middle of the ice and NOPE.
A big fat NOPE. That goal was not accomplished.
This season, Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin won the seventh Maurice “Rocket” Richard Trophy of his career after leading the league with 49 goals during his age 32 season. After declaring the Caps “were not going to be suck” in the preseason, Ovechkin backed up his talk and wore a shirt with that quote adorned on it, guiding his team to a third straight Metropolitan Division title. The Capitals finished third overall in the Eastern Conference (105 standings points) despite losing several key depth players during the offseason and both Barry Trotz and Brian MacLellan in the final years of their contracts.
Ovechkin scored 19 percent of the Capitals’ goals this season (49 out of 259 total goals), highest in the league, yet when the three finalists in Hart Trophy voting were announced Friday night, as voted by the Pro Hockey Writers’ Association, the Russian machine was no where to be found.
The NHL Network has been filling the dead space of summer by releasing positional rankings and, oh boy, did their rankings of wingers have one glaring error.
Lists are hard. It’s impossible to please everyone and disagreement is a guarantee. So, it’s not fair to expect lists to conform 100 percent to our own rankings, but, in an ideal world, lists are accurate enough to where reasonable minds can disagree. The NHL’s ranking of wingers allows for no such thing because no reasonable person can agree that Taylor Hall is only the 20th best winger in the NHL.
Hall is criminally underrated on the list, coming in at 20th.
By Patrick Holden 3 years ago
In his second year pro, Connor McDavid won the Hart Memorial Trophy, the Ted Lindsay Award, and the Art Ross Trophy. Now he’s a candidate for my made-up award, the RMNB Wedding Hero of the Year.
Saturday, McDavid was a guest at Jordan Eberle’s wedding in Calgary. Sure, the gawky McDavid didn’t rip off his shirt like Alex Ovechkin, but he did jump on stage and help a group of hockey players sing a karaoke version of Darius Rucker’s country classic Wagon Wheel.
The Caps and Devils were humming along during a boring third period and then WHAM! Brooks Orpik happened.
As he skated into the offensive zone, Devils forward Travis Zajac sent Taylor Hall a weaksauce backhanded pass that Orpik read all the way. Orpik caught Hall in the left shoulder and the former number one overall pick crumpled to the ice. Hall’s stick broke in half.
Special thanks to Gary Bettman for letting the guys out of the Quiet Room long enough for us to snap this pic. Enlarge. (Photo illustration by Ian Oland)
The stars of the All-Star Game were a little less bright this year. Some of the familiar faces that fans expect were absent for reasons that are becoming all too familiar in the modern NHL: head injury. Approximately 85 head injuries have been reported this year, meaning that nearly ten percent of all active players have been injured. 28 of 30 teams have reported at least one head injury, while some franchises have dealt with as many six or seven. With star center Nicklas Backstrom now sitting out due to concussion, the issue has hit close to home for Caps fans.
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