The 2024 NHL offseason saw many teams use their salary-cap space to make moves via trades and free agency to improve their rosters for 2024-25.
Some of those moves already appear to be paying early dividends.
Winger Jake Guentzel averaged a point per game in his first seven contests with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Chris Tanev have brought much-needed experience and skills to the Toronto Maple Leafs' defense corps. Mikhail Sergachev is doing the same on the Utah Hockey Club's blue line.
Some teams, like the Nashville Predators, aren't seeing the results they expected following their significant forays into free agency.