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Hello again, Razzball faithful! I’m very excited to be back on the hockey side of things for the 2025 season! When Viz sent out the ‘puck-beacon’ into the night sky, asking if anyone was down to help write some words about our beloved frozen fandom, I got that Flame in the belly again.  After I realized it was not indigestion, or Jarome Iginla, all it took was a quick message from Grey asking if I’d be interested in jumping back in on the word-Zamboni, and I was in. Some of you might remember me from a few years ago when I wrote up some DFS for Viz here. Since then, I’ve been hammering out words on the baseball side most recently as our Top 100 Starting Pitchers writer for the last two years. You can check that stuff out here if you have a lot of time on your hands and/or have read through the divisional preview 25 times already. As for me, I told Viz that I would be happy to preview the divisions and bring you names and some notes to help you get your squad up to snuff for the 2025-2026 season. After that, I’ll be coming back each Wednesday to do the Tuesday night recaps. 
Friday was one of the most eventful trade deadlines in my lifetime.  It had plenty of quantity, and an unparalleled amount of quality moved.  I'm going to note all of the trades that happened that carry any fantasy relevance, even for the deepest of leagues.  Some of them will be irrelevant even in the deepest of leagues, but there will also be blockbusters to discuss.  I will be going in the order that they happened, not in order of magnitude.  And with that, let's get to it! Florida Panthers acquire Vitek Vanecek from the San Jose Sharks for Patrick Giles. Vanecek is the new backup in Florida with Knight in Chicago.  He's starting on Saturday night and becomes a viable streamer every time he starts.  Giles is AHL depth for San Jose.