The Coyotes placed Nigel Dawes on waivers and the Calgary Flames picked him up. This is a great opportunity for him to turn his career back around with a second-line job. I still think that Boyd will be in the top six, and I would probably hurt Glencross as a dark horse consideration... unless [...]
Every Wednesday this summer, I will bring you a sleeper to watch for the 2009-2010 season (and potentially beyond). Released in no particular order, I will refrain from picking sleepers that have already shown glimpses of breaking out in the past – the obvious candidates. Time to go beneath the surface for some sleepers that you may have not thought about…
Adrian Dater is reporting in his Avs blog that the team will not sign Parshin this year, as I hinted at below. He will remain in the KHL for at least one more year. The Coyotes have signed Korpikoski to a two-year contract. The big news of the day - Kari Lehtonen [...]
What it boils down to is optimal playing time. A top-line player will get the best of everything, while a top-six player will receive decent even strength/second unit power-play ice-time. A bottom feeder will most likely receive checking line ice-time and less optimal scoring ice-time, which will hamper their scoring ability during the season. Their big break will only come if there are injuries or big sophomore slumps from their team’s top-six. There really isn’t a sense in projection 80 points for a player who isn’t even on a team’s top-line let alone top-six. Note: Take the line combos with a grain of salt. They are just arbitrary and are used primarily to separate a team’s top-six from the bottom-six. I really don’t want to get into arguments about how Bobby Ryan is going to line up alongside Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry instead of Joffrey Lupul. Anyways, onto the good stuff.
Carolina has signed Tom Kostopolous to a three-year deal worth about $900K per. Yep, that's the daily news we can look forward to for the next while... The Bruins added some more depth in signing UFA forwards Trent Whitfield and Drew Larman. The Isles have signed goalie Mikko Koskinen to an entry-level [...]
Being able to perceive a player’s true fantasy value is an elusive sense every fantasy manager covets. Who wouldn’t want to know exactly what Jonas Gustavsson’s save percentage or John Tavares’ average shifts per game will be? Alas, as more cognizant managers continue to hone their fantasy skills on DobberHockey, so too does your sense of perception become more of an important x-factor in the season-long battle.
I have some things to attend to personally that will wipe out my entire morning (July 14), so the ramblings won't begin until the afternoon. Ramblings don't really start rolling until the afternoon anyway. Comcast Sportsnet is reporting that Chicago GM Dale Tallon has been fired and that Stan Bowman will take over [...]
You may or may not be interested - Antoine Vermette was married on Saturday. Miroslav Satan's wife had a baby girl today. Here are some rumors floating around that are not from solid sources, so I figure half of them will come true: Sergei Zubov, Martin Gerber and Lauri Korpikoski are talking with [...]
The Buffalo Sabres have one of the deepest pipelines of skilled defensemen in the NHL. From NHL stalwarts, Henrik Tallinder, Toni Lydman, Nathan Paetsch and Andrej Sekera to prospects Chris Butler, Tyler Myers, T.J. Brennan, Drew Schiestel, Dennis Persson, Alex Biega and Vyateslav Buravchikov, the Sabres defensive depth is immense. Despite the abundant skill, none of these prospects has the offensive upside of Marc-Andre Gragnani.
Even though the Flames signed big Brian McGrattan, I don't think he'll hurt Prust's PIM any. In fact, I don't see McGrattan playing more than 45 games this year. Too much uncertainty. The Pens have signed Jay McKee to help make up for the loss of Rob Scuderi. The latter had a huge [...]
