Robin Lehner found a new home in Chicago and with Sergei Bobrovsky off to Florida, the goalie market didn’t take long to thin out. The Islanders relied on their goaltending last year and until the kids they’ve drafted the last couple years are ready, they’ll need to do so again. The help this season, [...]
Fantasy Impact: The Chicago Blackhawks have signed goaltender Robin Lehner to a one-year contract worth $5 million. The Blackhawks get: a goaltender in his prime coming off a William Jennings-winning elite season in which he posted a 0.930 SV% in 46 games and carried his team into the second round of the playoffs. [...]
Often, it’s not the average annual value of a contract that handcuffs a team, but rather the length. Just recent examples of this include guys like Patrick Marleau and Scott Darling. The problem at the outset wasn’t how much money they were getting every year, but how long the deal was. The Leafs ran [...]
Much like Joonas Donskoi, Gustav Nyquist was going to be a cap casualty in San Jose. It seemed almost certain anyway after they acquired him down the stretch but regardless, Nyquist was going to find a new home this summer. Nyquist found his new home as the Columbus Blue Jackets signed him to a [...]
