According to Darren Dreger, contract talks between the St. Louis Blues and Alex Pietrangelo have broken off to the point that the Blues have told their star defenseman to pursue free agency. https://twitter.com/DarrenDreger/status/1307108220935245825 I had assumed that the Blues had viewed Pietrangelo as a true foundational piece, so I’m surprised that it’s gotten to this [...]
After some doubt about whether it was ever going to happen, the 2019-20 Stanley Cup playoffs are almost complete. For either the Tampa Bay Lightning or the Dallas Stars, life in the bubble for two months will all be worth it. Tampa’s win over the Islanders was expected, as 12 of 15 DobberHockey writers picked [...]
Back in April we did a feature on 4th year breakouts, and then took a look at some players in their third year who had some solid potential to be 2020-21’s fourth-year breakout. This week I wanted to follow up on that article and see if more playoff games have given us any more information [...]
We now have a Stanley Cup Final, which gets going on Saturday. Lightning 2, Islanders 1 OT (Lightning win series 4-2) If you picked Anthony Cirelli in your overtime challenge, congratulations. Cirelli scored 13:18 into overtime to send Tampa Bay to the Stanley Cup Final. Here’s the goal, which didn’t look like it went in [...]
On Wednesday afternoon, the Wild and Sabres traded forwards with a year remaining on their deals. The Sabres brought in three-time 40-goal man Eric Staal while the Wild took in 29-year-old Marcus Johansson. No money was retained by either side. The Wild Receive: A versatile forward who lives in the 40-point pace year after year. [...]
This week premiers the salary projections for the top 20 free agent goalies in salary cap leagues. It doesn’t look as fun as the top 200 skaters list that we have coming out next week, but I assume you that there will some fireworks involving these players this offseason. The list is unsurprisingly headed by [...]
We’ve seen lots of young players head overseas as their teams try to continue their development, and that makes all the sense in the world with so much time between last season and next season. I also saw Joe Thornton went back to Davos where he played during the lockout but he hasn’t suited up [...]
Welcome back to Forum Buzz, where I peruse the DobberHockey Forums and weigh in on active, heavily debated, or otherwise relevant recent threads, reminding folks just how great a resource the Forums are. Nearly anything might be covered here, other than trades and signings, which usually get their own separate write-ups on the main site and are also usually [...]
Here are the top 50 prospect defensemen to own in your points-only keeper leagues - September edition! Not much changing this month, as I present to you the last rankings for prospect forwards that do not include the 2020 draftees. Next month - Jamie Drysdale debuts! How does he stack up against Boqvist and Dawson? [...]
The Isles and Bolts went to the wall in Game 5 on Tuesday. During these strange bubble times, it had been posited that elimination games were a bit easier to close out with teams more readily able to fold and go see their families for the first time in weeks. However, New York wasn't going [...]
