Fantasy Impact: The San Jose Sharks have acquired TJ Galiardi and Daniel Winnik (plus a seventh-round pick) from the Colorado Avalanche for Jamie McGinn, Michael Sgarbossa and Mike Connelly.
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Fantasy Impact: The Toronto Maple Leafs have acquired prospect winger Carter Ashton from the Tampa Bay Lightning for prospect defenseman Keith Aulie.
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Fantasy Impact: The Minnesota Wild have traded defenseman Nick Schultz to the Edmonton Oilers for defenseman Tom Gilbert.
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Fantasy Impact: The Nashville Predators have acquired Andrei Kostitsyn from the Montreal Canadiens for a second-round draft pick plus the conditional draft pick that they got in the Hal Gill deal.
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Happy Trade Deadline Day! I will have a fantasy breakdown for any deal that is remotely impactful in fantasy hockey, and I’ll have it quickly. Also join me for a live trade rumor chat HERE. It will begin at 11am and usually runs until around 4pm each year. Other DobberHockey columnists are all invited, [...]
2012 NHL Trade Deadline - Live, five hour chat with Dobber and some of the other DobberHockey columnists. Join us! Dobber's Fantasy Hockey NHL Trade Deadline Chat
Fantasy Impact: The Ottawa Senators have acquired goaltender Ben Bishop from the St. Louis Blues for a 2012 second-round draft pick.
Sportsnet.ca's Ian Mendes tweeted: Murray on Lehner vs Bishop for back-up job next season: "Now we have competition. Performance will dicate who will be that person." *** Jack Johnson is making his debut with the Columbus Jackets as I write this and he's paired with James Wisniewski. He's already making his [...]
This month, Brian Kom chats with Lyle Richardson of Spector's Hockey, as well as Nashville writer Dirk Hoag.
The art of drafting and developing offensive-minded defensemen into responsible players capable of being trusted with NHL ice-time has not been perfected yet. National Hockey League teams continue to juggle and tweak their approach with these potential offensive catalysts in hopes of finding the next Erik Karlsson or Kris Letang. Fantasy leagues that permit drafting of young defenseman often make decisions tough come draft time. Should you draft the defenseman with good odds of become a regular thirty-to-forty NHL rearguard? Or, is the better approach to identify those defensemen with high offensive upside and disregard the risk of them not becoming an NHLer? The answers will depend solely on your team’s draft tendency and comfort level with taking risks but The Dean’s List would chose the latter.
