It was always a near-certainty that Joe Thornton would return to the Sharks on a similar deal as last year and he signed on of those Monday afternoon. It’s just a one-year deal with a $5-million cap hit. Thornton, now 39 years old, is coming off significant knee problems in each of the last two [...]
We are back this week for round three of our summer series, this time featuring Calgary. The idea is to compare end of 2017-18 Fantasy Hockey Geek rankings for individual players with an expected ranking based on their average draft positions from the start of the year. This process does not necessarily identify who was [...]
The Calgary Flames have signed sniping winger James Neal to a five-year contract worth $5.75 million per season. The Flames get: a proven 30-goal scorer and a consistent 23-goal scorer. But let’s not get carried away and label him a 30-goal guy. Neal has done it twice in his career, once in 2011-12 when [...]
The start to the free agency period yesterday was kind of a bummer (unless you’re a Leafs fan). Lots of big names that were rumoured to be dealt (Erik Karlsson, Max Pacioretty, Jeff Skinner, Phil Kessell, Artmei Panarin and a bunch more) stayed put, although Ryan O’Reilly being traded late in the day made [...]
Ramblings: Dobber reviews, team-by-team, an eventful Free Agent Frenzy (July 2) *** What a fantastic Free Agent Frenzy this year, highlighted by John Tavares taking a discount and the Sabres – Blues ending things with a blockbuster. Truly enjoyable, though I wish the latter trade was done three or four hours earlier, but that’s nitpicking. [...]
The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed superstar center John Tavares to a seven-year deal, per Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet. Not everyday you can live a childhood dream pic.twitter.com/YUTKdfMALl — John Tavares (@91Tavares) July 1, 2018 The Maple Leafs get: The prize catch of this summer's free agency. Tavares was courted by six different [...]
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Edmonton has been rebuilding their winger depth ever since the trades of Taylor Hall and Jordan Eberle. Whether it be promoting Drake Caggiula, signing Milan Lucic and Ty Rattie, or trading for Pontus Aberg. That winger restocking continued on Canada Day as they added Tobias Rieder for one year at a price of $2-million. [...]
