With the big update to the goalie rankings, we overhaul the top-10, as a lot of our bargain goalies from last season are now due for raises. That’s going to make for an expensive summer on the goalie market, with Ville Husso, Jack Campbell, Vitek Vanecek, and others all looking for multiple millions more than [...]
There were some concerns over the health of Tim Stutzle’s knee after suffering an injury playing for Germany at the World Championships. We got some clarification from Ottawa GM Pierre Dorion and it seems good news: https://twitter.com/SunGarrioch/status/1529481939412955142 Re-injuring the same knee isn’t great, but that the recovery won’t take long, plus having the entire offseason [...]
This is the big update of the year, where all of the player stats get flipped from the finished regular season over to looking at the next one. This is especially impactful in these rankings, as a lot of the top players on the last list had expiring contracts. With a lot of them free [...]
After several offseasons where it felt as though the UFA pool was quite shallow, from where I sit there is no shortage of likely impact players set to hit this summer’s market as unrestricted free agents. Although some will play well enough to justify their price tags, history has shown several will prove to be [...]
Busy two days here with my salary projections coming out yesterday, cap league skater rankings this morning, and cap league goalie rankings tomorrow. I’m going to say a quick work on each of those before getting into a few other thoughts. Salary projections: I’ve been working on these for the last five years, and they’re [...]
Typically, I have informally added my salary projections to the end of a Ramblings article, but this time I wanted to put them out as a separate page to keep it a little cleaner. I have been working on contract projections since the fall of 2017, and it has been a big help to my [...]
This week’s Eastern Edge will be the first part of a series, where we look at how players fared in new surroundings this year. Over the next few weeks, we’ll discuss players that joined new teams ahead of the 2021-2022 regular season, as well as those that were traded during the campaign. Linus Ullmark The [...]
Back to a two-game slate tonight, which is still enough to risk another wager on individual outcomes. For Sunday’s column, I was right that the Rangers and Mike Smith would shine, but my Florida Panthers’ stack sunk my DraftKings bet before either of the other two games even started. I guess I’m grateful to bet [...]
After having two goals disallowed – one because the puck had hit the netting, another for a hand pass off a face-off – Patrick Maroon batted home a rebound for Tampa Bay that would stand as the game-winner in the 2-0 clincher. It gave his team the 4-0 series sweep, and a trip to the [...]
Off the ice, this team has done far more wrong than right over the past 15 years which has been exacerbated over this past year by the management and ownership’s general disdain to deal with the issues. On the ice, the team went out and paid a fortune for Seth Jones at a puzzling time [...]
