Jason Blake has signed with the Leafs on a five year deal worth $4 million per season. The Capitals have signed Russian pivot Viktor Kozlov. His fantasy value immediately goes up. The Rangers made two HUGE moves, signing both Scott Gomez and Chris Drury. Both contracts are for a bit over $7 million per season (average), with [...]
Manny Fernandez has been dealt to the Boston Bruins. In exchange for his services, the Wild acquired prospect Peter Kalus and a draft pick. Jason Allison is ready to return to the NHL. In an interview with the Canadian Press, he has stated that he was hoping to go to one of a select few [...]
Note: Angus and Burnsy will be covering the UFA signings from Sunday afternoon until Tuesday morning as I will be out of Internet range. I will also hold off on updating the fantasy rankings until July 4, because of all the UFA signings that are bound to happen and impact them. There will be no [...]
Word on the street is that Burnsy is about to return, and he's gonna be edgier and moreopinionated than ever before. Keep your eyes peeled for Third Degree Burns V 2.0 ... coming to a kick ass site near you soon.
Just my opinion, but Igor Larionov should be inducted into the Hall of Fame instead of Scott Stevens. Since the HHOF insists that it can allow no more than four players per year (the rule should be more flexible, but I digress), then Stevens should be the one waiting a year, and not a former [...]
As keeper league hockey pools increase in number each year, fantasy junkies become more active in the off-season as they prepare their team for the coming year. Rebuild? Retool? Tweak? Whatever your intentions, it helps to get all the information you can about your players.
Throughout the off-season, FPL will look at a pair of teams each week and give you the fantasy lowdown. Bucking the trend of past years, we will review alphabetically – in reverse. Just to be different.
(This article was originally submitted to and published by The Hockey News, ESPN.com and MSN.ca)
Angelo Esposito was, by all accounts, very impressive in his first day of prospect camp for the Penguins. The latest strategy for NHL GMs is to not qualify their borderline players. The thinking is, in some cases, that if they are taken to arbitration they will be forced to pay them far too much. Whereas not [...]
Here is the second of three articles on the goaltending of the 15 Western Conference clubs. Covered in this article are Dallas, Minnesota, Calgary, Colorado, and St. Louis.
According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Keith Tkachuk was traded back to the Blues in order to...get this...make things EASIER for them to re-sign Tkachuk. You read that right. This trade was made so that, according to GM Don Waddell, the Thrashers can sign Tkachuk on July 1st. Had they not done this trade, they [...]
Several of the players listed below are no-brainers for a points increase. That said, if their current owners in your keeper pool are down on them even a little bit, now would be a good time to try and pry them away while their value is low.
