Some people are just having a better summer than others.

For example, take Artemi Panarin, who secured $81.5 million to be paid out over the next seven years after signing a deal with the New York Rangers.

The Bread Man, however, represents only one of many NHLers who have been on the move this off-season. For our selfish purposes, let’s take a look at the faces in new places that will benefit the most from their new destinations in fantasy hockey.

1. Nazem Kadri - Colorado Avalanche

The Toronto Maple Leafs were one of the best offensive teams last season. The club finished fourth with 286 goals and managed to produce a solid mark of 21.8% on the power play.

The problem for Kadri, though, was that he wasn’t able to carve out a more statistically rewarding role on the team.

After signing John Tavares, Kadri was relegated to third-line duties. That won’t be the case with the Avalanche, as the tenacious centre is the odds-on favourite to start the season as the Avs’ second-line middleman.

That means Kadri will most likely see an uptick from the 16:11 of ice-time he received per game last season. And given how much of a problem Colorado’s first line of Nathan MacKinnon, Gabriel Landeskog, and Mikko Rantanen is for opposing defences, that should deflect much of the attention away from Line 2.

One other thing working in Kadri’s favour is that his shooting percentage last season was sizeably lower than his career mark. Scoring on 11.5% of the shots he’s taken throughout his NHL tenure, the two-time 30-goal scorer finished with an underwhelming 8.7% total last year. His larger body of work indicates more shots will find the back of the net next season.

2. Gustav Nyquist - Columbus Blue Jackets

This off-season has not been very kind to the Columbus Blue Jackets. Sergei Bobrovsky and Matt Duchene parted, along with Panarin, which means the team will most likely take a hefty step backwards next season.

For fantasy though, we don’t care about that. What we care about is opportunity - and Nyquist should get his chance to return fantasy value in Ohio.

The Swedish forward is in line to operate on both Columbus’s top line and power-play unit. Being placed in those valuable roles, even though the Jackets may struggle next season, will give the winger lots of chances to rack up points.

Nyquist should be a pretty safe bet to replicate his 22-goal 2018-19 campaign, if not improve upon it. His 22 markers were accompanied with a shooting percentage of 10.8%, slightly below his career total of 11.3%.

The 29-year old’s floor should be around the 20-goal, 50-point mark again, while also offering the potential to earn and maintain a spot on the Blue Jackets' top PP unit. He is shaping up to be a nice volume-based selection later in fantasy drafts.

3. Matt Duchene - Nashville Predators

There’s no question that the Nashville Predators struggled offensively last season. The team notched the third-lowest goal total of all teams to make the playoffs, boasted the worst power play in the entire league, and were the only post-season team from the Western Conference to not have someone on their roster record 65 points or more.

But despite all of the club’s struggles, there’s no question that the addition of Duchene will be mutually beneficial.

For starters, the Haliburton, Ont., native will be able to help address the Preds’ poor power play. Before his trade to Columbus, the Ottawa Senators’ power play produced at a mark of 20.9%. After he was dealt, that number shot down to 18.5%. The loss of Mark Stone from the Sens should also be noted as a key reason why that occurred. However, the Blue Jackets power play did get better with Duchene in the lineup. The club was striking at a success rate of 15.1% before his arrival and wound up being 16.3% with him on the team. The improved results from the PP unit carried over into the playoffs, where Columbus wrapped up the post-season with a conversion mark of 25%. The coveted trade deadline acquisition contributed to that success with three goals and an assist.

In a fairly likely best-case scenario, Duchene will start the season as the team’s No. 1 centre. That would mean he’d be operating on a line with Viktor Arvidsson and Filip Forsberg, which is not bad at all for fantasy purposes.

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