One of the big storylines of the 2023 NHL offseason is the Winnipeg Jets and what they would do with their stars. It seems as if they are ready to unload a bevy of players, a few of them being core pieces for the last few or even several years, to try and turn the [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll discuss draft day storylines that could affect fantasy outlooks for the 2023-2024 campaign. Boston Bruins – Financial Ruins for the Bruins The Bruins cleared up a fair bit of cap space when they sent Taylor Hall to Chicago on Monday. Although they have more room to breathe now, [...]
The Montreal Canadiens have been tied to trade talks with Pierre-Luc Dubois for some time now, but the latest rumours are pointing to a trade between Winninpeg and Los Angeles sooner rather than later. It appears that this made the Canadiens pivot and look for help elsewhere. Perhaps they took inspiration from the re-emergence of [...]
With new management in Philadelphia and coach John Tortorella establishing his favourites, the clock was ticking on Kevin Hayes’s tenure as a Flyer. The catch with Hayes was his contract, which has three years left, carries an average annual value over $7.1M, and a partial no-trade clause to boot. Philadelphia decided to retain half the [...]
Hello my Salary Cap-friendlies! Most of you know me from the Looking Ahead articles here at DobberHockey (with new articles out every Friday during the season, tell a friend), but I will now also be here to talk all things salary life and love this upcoming season. My qualifications you may ask. Well besides being [...]
The trades that a lot of us were anticipating have been slow to materialize, though we did get a couple important moves on the weekend. Ryan Johansen is now in Colorado, and that was covered by Ian, while Sean Durzi is now in Arizona, a trade that Ian also wrote about. Picking up Johansen at [...]
The Boston Bruins traded winger Taylor Hall and pending UFA winger Nick Foligno to the Chicago Blackhawks in exchange for prospect defensemen Ian Mitchell and Alec Regula. The Blackhawks get: a former star winger in Hall, who is now a shadow of his former self. With Boston, Hall was a regular middle-six winger who saw [...]
It would be ideal for every team in the NHL to have about five or six rising players on their roster, but it’s just not possible. It’s usually reserved for clubs who have been losing for at least a few years and had little success. Some teams manage to have rising players who can help [...]
The next two weeks are the most exciting time for a fantasy hockey fan. The NHL draft is the chance for many of us to get an idea of the latest prospects and where they will land. Then a few days later, there's the start of NHL free agency day, where teams overpay for older [...]
The Prospects Report was released June 1. Updated Friday with the 17th annual Mock Draft. You can order all of the 2023-24 fantasy products in the shop here (or subscribe!). The draft is in just two days – follow along with our experts, while at the same time get the fantasy hockey angle on every [...]
