The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed left wing Nick Ritchie to a two-year contract with a cap hit of $2.5 million. The Leafs receive a 25-year-old power forward who has recorded high penalty minute and hit totals as well as flashes of scoring ability throughout his career. Best-case scenario, he’s a replacement for Zach Hyman [...]
Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing Fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. The 2021 NHL Draft has now come and gone, and teams were able to add a good number of promising prospects to their organization, which warrants a review and comparison of [...]
Here are the Top 100 goalies to own in your points-only keeper leagues - July edition! First, an announcement - the 16th annual DobberHockey Fantasy Guide is out on August 14! Pre-order it here. The goalies are now adjusted for their new homes. As always, I ask - nay, beg - that you refer only [...]
David Krejci was at the top of many remaining UFA lists as of Friday, and was even believed to be working on something with the Bruins. However, he has decided to retire from the NHL, opting to return to his native Czech Republic to resume his career. With many families separated by COVID restrictions over [...]
Wednesday was a wild one. Signings, trades, you name it. It was a particularly incredible day for goalies. We saw quite a few of them move, several teams swapping out their entire tandems. In light of this I wanted to bring back an article from last summer where I dug into goalies on the move [...]
Two days of free agency have come and gone. Day 2 didn’t feature nearly as much activity as Day 1, though there were two significant players finding new homes. The links for the Fantasy Takes (written by Mike) are listed below. Fantasy Take: Saad Signs in St. Louis – Part of the post-Vladimir Tarasenko plan. [...]
With Colorado re-signing Gabriel Landeskog to his monster extension, it seemed likely Brandon Saad would be moving on from the Avalanche. Exactly where he would land might take some time, but that he was gone was pretty much a sure thing. The 28-year-old winger made his decision on Thursday, and he’s going to a rival: [...]
After losing to Tampa in the 2020 Finals in the summer bubble, and then losing to Tampa in the 2021 Finals as a member of the Montreal Canadiens, it appears as if Corey Perry has had enough. He is done losing to Tampa Bay, so he’s decided to join the Bolts instead: https://twitter.com/KevinWeekes/status/1420786764160159745 Perry is [...]
We truly had ourselves a Free Agent Frenzy, didn’t we? Last year didn’t see much player movement while this year it didn’t seem to slow down for about the first six hours. Myself, Dobber, and Ian were around for the day giving out our instant analysis on the signings (and trades!) that went down. They [...]
The Colorado Avalanche landed goaltender Darcy Kuemper from the Arizona Coyotes in exchange for a first-round draft pick and defenseman Conor Timmins. The Avalanche Get: Their No.1 goaltender that they lost earlier in the day when Philipp Grubauer signed with Seattle. Kuemper was an elite netminder in this league for one-and-a-half seasons. Then he got [...]
