Brock Trotter has signed a one-year deal to go play in the KHL next season. He had a fantastic 2009-10 campaign in the AHL with Hamilton, but was a longshot to make the Habs. Fantasy mailbag time! Ask me your questions all day today on the forums. Even with Sami Salo’s injury, [...]
Reports out of Finland have been comfirmed - Sami Salo has suffered an achilles tendon injury and will miss the next 3-6 months. Does this change Vancouver's plans with Kevin Bieksa? Ondrej Pavelec’s contract is very, very nice for the Thrashers. Two years, $1.15 million cap hit. He’ll learn a lot from Chris [...]
Russ is on hiatus for the summer, so I’ll be filling in for him. You Dobberities won’t miss out on the Eastern half half of the information for your fantasy leagues in these series of columns, so don’t worry!
Robert Nilsson is off to the KHL. He has always struck me as a solid 'tweener' (a good player without a role). He has fabolous hands but was often overmatched physically at the NHL level. Pool Guide 2010-11... Nine days and counting. Get excited. Not a peep about Marek Svatos so far... [...]
A 30-minute Meditation on Alexander Frolov
The Ilya Kovalchuk drama is exhausting. Serious, it’s worse than the Phoenix Coyotes’ ownership catastrophe of last summer.
But once Kovalchuk finds a home (in the NHL), I have no doubt that poolies’ interest in him come draft day will only be heightened. Yet it doesn't take a genius to draft an elite player like a Crosby, an Ovechkin or a Kovalchuk. Winners are usually built through the tricky middle rounds. And with that in mind, my thoughts recently turned to another Russian free agent. While Alexander’s Frolov’s stock has fallen of late, he may well surprise some this year, and it’s guaranteed that you won’t have to waste a high pick to land the winger.
Clarke MacArthur was awarded $2.4 million in arbitration today and the Thrashers have indeed decided to walk away from it. MacArthur is now an unrestricted free agent. David Perron has signed a two-year contract for $4.3 million. Joffrey Lupul reported on his Twitter account that he will undergo an MRI on his [...]
I’d like to formally welcome Mike Colligan (my co-author for this article series) to DobberHockey. You can read more about Mike at the bottom of the page. For the past month we have been trading e-mails back and forth about fantasy hockey strategies for trading and player valuation, and how these strategies directly relate to many key concepts in the business world. We both possess business backgrounds from an education standpoint, and I was interested to see that Mike was using many of the same ideas and strategies from and applying them to fantasy hockey as I was. Today we will introduce the topic of value investing to you.
Continuing the series on the breakdown of each Western Conference team. This week we’ll take a deeper look into the Red Wings, Oilers and Kings.
NHL GM's remind me of little children in the manner in which they push things a little bit more each time. "Don't do that Billy. Don't touch!" And then Billy slowly reaches out with his finger and 'almost' touches it. Then he sees you don't object, so he just lightly touches. Then, still no [...]
Fantasy Analysis: The Philadelphia Flyers have dealt Simon Gagne to the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for Matt Walker and a fourth-round draft pick.
