After the madness dies down from the first few days of July, there are bargains remaining to be found in the free-agent pile. Last year we saw names such as Patrick Maroon, Tyler Ennis, and Anthony Duclair, among others, signed after the big wave, providing some very valuable production versus their cap hit. This [...]
Here are the Top 200 prospects to own in your points-only keeper leagues - July edition! It's here! The first ranking that includes the 2019 draft picks. As always, players within +/- 5.0 ratings points should be considered equal value and at this point become a matter of team needs and personal bias. o=offensive [...]
A very cool development in the fantasy hockey world. The National Fantasy Hockey Championship, or NFHC, launched on Wednesday. It comes as a sister site for the National Fantasy Baseball Championship (NFBC), National Fantasy Basketball Championship (NFBBC), and the National Fantasy Football Championship (NFFC). In a nutshell, they’re high-stakes fantasy leagues. I’ve taken part [...]
The Vancouver Canucks have signed Micheal Ferland to a four-year contract worth 3.5 million per season. The Canucks Receive: A versatile, hard-hitting winger who can play on either side of the dot. The 27-year-old has played at a 45-point pace in each of the last two seasons - recording a career-high 21 goals in [...]
It’s time for another edition of “Forum Buzz,” a column where I weigh in on some of the most active or heavily debated threads from the past month on the DobberHockey Forums. Pretty much anything within the forums might be covered, other than trades and signings, which usually will get their own separate write-ups [...]
Every so often, the world gets up on their high horse and deems a star athlete garbage. “Psssh that elite talent who has spent his entire life meticulously training to be superior is a fraud. I’ve been eating chippies all these years and could do better than that!” Right about now, the guy [...]
There were a lot of breakout rookie defencemen in 2018-19 and one of them was most definitely Henri Jokiharju. It wasn’t a great fantasy season by any stretch, seeing he played just 38 games in the NHL and spent half the season in the AHL, most of that after the World Juniors. Nonetheless, he [...]
Here’s this week’s installment of Eastern Edge where we take a closer look at the new additions in Florida and Buffalo. We’ll get to Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and more in next week’s edition! Buffalo Sabres Colin Miller – The Sabres’ acquired a really good puck-moving defenseman for a second-round pick and a fifth-round [...]
We can knock one important RFA off the board as the San Jose Sharks signed winger Kevin Labanc to a one-year contract with a $1M cap hit. The 23-year old is coming off a 56-point season while playing mostly third-line minutes; just his minutes with Joe Thornton and Marcus Sorensen alone ate up over [...]
While many fantasy hockey general managers are still focused on where available unrestricted free agents might still sign and for how much, there could still be some battles left to follow. Forty players have filed for arbitration (although Cedric Paquette agreed to terms with the Lightning after filing, so there are 39 names left) [...]
