The Buffalo Sabres did the expected on Friday, selecting defenseman Owen Power with the first overall pick. For more on Power, you can view his Dobber Prospects profile. Fellow Michigan alum Matthew Beniers was the second overall pick and first-ever entry draft pick in Seattle Kraken history. Check out his Dobber Prospects profile. Mason McTavish [...]
Carolina completed their second somewhat vexing trade of the week on Friday. Earlier, they shipped off Alex Nedeljkovic to Detroit for a mid-round pick and the rights to Jonathan Bernier. Not exactly what Carolina fans were hoping for, I think, for a goalie who’d gone through their system and was a finalist for the Calder [...]
The rumours had been swirling basically all year that Seth Jones would be traded and that happened about an hour before the 2021 NHL Entry Draft. As had been rumoured, the Chicago Blackhawks have acquired the 26-year-old blue liner and subsequently extended him for seven years. It really took me a minute to get my [...]
In a trade that looks more like something you’d see in a dynasty fantasy league than between two NHL teams, the Vancouver Canucks have acquired Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Conor Garland from the Arizona Coyotes for Jay Beagle, Loui Eriksson, Antoine Roussel, the ninth overall pick in the 2021 NHL Draft (Dylan Guenther), a second-rounder next [...]
This one kind of hits home because as a fantasy analyst, there are players we have to believe in. There are players that come along and the analyst identifies something they like about the player and start of sort to root for them. Bias can set in here so it’s a very tricky path to [...]
Following the trade of Shayne Gostisbehere, it seemed as if Philadelphia was clearing cap space to make another splash on the back-end. This offseason is moving so fast that it’s easy to forget that they’ve already picked up Ryan Ellis from Nashville. Well, they did indeed add another defenceman, and it came way out of [...]
With Seattle on the brain, we turn to expansion teams. This will be a bit less about Seattle’s current draft list (which is likely to change before opening night) and more about doing a little expectation setting. We will start by digging into our last example of an expansion team entering into the league and [...]
One of the big sagas of the summer will be where Jack Eichel ends up. It seems clear at this point that the fracture between the player and team is just too severe to mend. Where he ends up and what the trade looks like is down the line, and it seems we may be [...]
“The desert around their walls is called the Garden of Bones. Every time the Qartheen shut their gates, the garden grows.” I thought of that quote from the second season of the Game of Thrones when I found out that Shayne Gostisbehere had been traded to Arizona. Here are the particulars: https://twitter.com/CraigSMorgan/status/1418265130433798150 The Flyers paid [...]
There are always some trades that come out of left field and take the hockey world by surprise. This trade would certainly qualify, as Alex Nedeljkovic, the goalie who looked like the future in Carolina, was shipped off to Detroit. The return was as follows: https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/1418261341928935427 My initial reaction was just shock. Nedeljkovic is a [...]
