Monday was the day for teams to either qualify their restricted free agents or not. In short, if teams don’t send a qualifying offer to an RFA, that player turns into an unrestricted free agent. The Chicago Blackhawks failed to qualify Pius Suter a year ago and he went and signed with Detroit. Ondrej Kase [...]
The Ottawa Senators have traded goaltender Matt Murray along with a third- and a seventh-round draft pick to the Toronto Maple Leafs for future considerations. The Senators get: Really just cap space, in order to take that rumored run at signing UFA Claude Giroux on Wednesday. The Maple Leafs get: “A proven Cup winner in [...]
Here are the Top 200 prospect forwards to own in your points-only keeper leagues - July edition! The 2022 draftees are in. About 100 players were added to the template, and just when I finished... all the RFA qualifying offer news started coming out and I made those adjustments as well. Click on any player [...]
With the unrestricted free agent deadline coming up on July 13th, I thought I would take a break from the looks at each western organisation and focus on the notable UFAs from each team in the West. Filip Forsberg was one of the bigger UFAs but he came to an agreement with Nashville on an [...]
Youth is king in fantasy hockey, with maybe the exception of grit categories. Quite often in fantasy drafts, we look at veteran players for PIM, hits and blocked shots. This is usually because there isn't enough information on grit categories in other leagues. Aside from PIM, the AHL doesn't have that information on its website. [...]
The Fantasy Prospects Report was updated just over a week ago with our Mock Draft, plus several additional player profiles. It will be updated again either today or Tuesday, simply with notes in the Draftees section stating when they were drafted and by which team – and then handy links to and from that team’s [...]
Every Sunday, we share 21 Fantasy Rambles from our writers at DobberHockey. These thoughts are curated from the past week's ‘Daily Ramblings’. Writers/Editors: Ian Gooding, Michael Clifford, Alexander MacLean, and Dobber — 1. The NHL Draft started off by answering the question that had become very prevalent over the last few weeks: Shane Wright or [...]
Strike a key name off your free agent board. Several days before free agency begins, Filip Forsberg has agreed to an eight-year contract extension worth $8.5 million per season. Alex MacLean projected $8,394,700 per season for Forsberg, which is pretty darn close. See the rest of his projections here. I have to be honest: I [...]
Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. First off, my name is Curtis Rines. I run the Nashville Predators team page for DobberProspects, and I will be filling in for Ben while he is away on vacation! I [...]
Day 2 of the NHL Draft took place on Friday, with the picks happening much more quickly than they did on Thursday for the first round. For a full list of picks from 1 to 225, head over to the NHL site. If you want to learn more about your favorite team’s picks, or any [...]
