Bell and Toskala to the Leafs
Vesa Toskala and Mark Bell have been traded to the Leafs for their first and second round picks this weekend and a fourth round pick in 2009. Here is the fantasy take...
June 22, 2007
Didn't buy the Prospect Report yet? Why? You know that you're buying the pool guide in August...may as well fork over another four bucks and get the Prospect Report - what else are you gonna do with your four bucks? Buy a bag of chips? Buy it now and have something to refer to when [...]
St. Louis and San Jose
As keeper league hockey pools increase in number each year, fantasy junkies become more active in the off-season as they prepare their team for the coming year. Rebuild? Retool? Tweak? Whatever your intentions, it helps to get all the information you can about your players.
Throughout the off-season, FPL will look at a pair of teams each week and give you the fantasy lowdown. Bucking the trend of past years, we will review alphabetically – in reverse. Just to be different.
(This, and all of Dobber's articles, can also be found at The Hockey News, ESPN.com and MSN.ca)
June 21, 2007
Matt Bugg is in Columbus. Check out Bugg's Blog in our forum for up to the minute updates on all the latest rumblings out of Ohio... They did it, and man did he let them off easy. Giggy actually signed a four-year deal with Anaheim for $24 million, when he could have done a little better [...]
June 20, 2007
Check out Bugg's Blog in the forum. Matt Bugg is in Columbus and will detail what he sees and hears as it happens all week long... The Canes re-signed Scott Walker to a three year deal. Giguere and Burke are talking contract and both parties want him to stay. However, if the price tag is too high, [...]
June 19, 2007
Part of the fallout from yesterday's huge contracts is, of course, the demands from agents of free agents from all across the league. Mathieu Schneider is now looking for Kimmo Timonen money, which is probably out of the Detroit cap range so look for Schneids to go elsewhere. As rumored/expected, the Bruins have hired Claude Julien [...]
Hartnell and Timonen to Flyers for a First Rounder
The Preds, as soon as they realized that they would be unable to sign pending UFA's Scott Hartnell and Kimmo Timonen, flipped the pair to the Flyers for their first round draft pick back (given up in the Forsberg trade in the spring). The Flyers than signed both Hartnell and Timonen.
Dobber’s XM Radio Appearance
Every Monday at 8:45 am Dobber is on XM Satellite Radio 204 to talk fantasy hockey. Here is his latest appearance (June 18). CLICK HERE
June 18, 2007
The Sens fired John Muckler and hired Bryan Murray. The hunt is on for a new coach. Personally, I thought Murray was a good fit as a coach, so any coach they find will be a downgrade. Petr Tenkrat has signed a deal to play in Sweden next year. If he gets an NHL contract, he [...]
Why Legace Makes a Great Sleeper
We all are in agreement that the best goalies to own next season are Roberto Luongo and Martin Brodeur. We can also agree that there is a second tier that would include Miikka Kiprusoff, Marty Turco, Ryan Miller and Henrik Lundqvist. From that point, there are a handful of goaltenders who will give you solid fantasy numbers – to the extent that they could perform just as well as anyone in that second tier. These goaltenders include Tomas Vokoun, Rick DiPietro, Ray Emery, J-S Giguere (wherever he goes), Evgeni Nabokov, Marc-Andre Fleury and Cam Ward.
There is another one you should add to the list. In fact, you can stick him in the group of second-tier netminders. He’ll be that good.