Does anyone remember the three-way trade a few years ago between Nashville, Vegas, and Philadelphia, where former second and sixth overall picks were moved, along with a top pair defenceman on an eight-year deal and another six-foot-five right shot defenceman? Well, Cody Glass is the last one of them remaining in the NHL, and yesterday [...]
Oliver Kylington was on the free agent market longer than he should have been considering that a $1.05 million AAV was all it took to get him signed. In Colorado there is a log-jam of defencemen, with Cale Makar, Devon Toews, Josh Manson, and Samuel Girard taking up the top-four spots, and Kylington joining a [...]
With the release of the NHL schedule, we can start breaking down a lot of the numbers, data, and trends that we get from it. Stick taps to Eric Daoust who had the schedule loaded up into Frozentools within hours, where it’s downloadable in its entirety as an Excel sheet. Andrew Santillo does the schedule [...]
With the Fantasy Guide dropping Monday I’m sure you all have a lot more reading to get through it, and don’t want to spend too much time here going over news and rambles about what is happening at the end of July, but I’ll try to make it worth your while. If you haven’t bought [...]
The fantasy guide dropped yesterday! If you haven’t bought the guide though, go do that now and then come back to read this after, because the fantasy guide is the pinnacle of what we produce here, and not only is it the most engrossing read, but buying one is also the best way to support [...]
Here are the top 64 goalies to own in your salary cap league – June 26th, 2024 edition. Just like with the skaters, most of the free agent goalies have signed as well. There is still some tinkering to be done with game, win, and save projections, as the closer we get to the season [...]
It’s the end of July, and that means we have most of the free agents signed. The 2024 rookie crop won’t be incorporated until the next update, and there is still some tinkering to be done with point projections. Overall, still some work to do this summer. Take a gander at the rankings below, and [...]
On Monday, the Columbus Blue Jackets announced that they had hired Dean Evason as their new Head Coach. He has one of the winningest records among active head coaches, and was very well regarded from his time in Minnesota. While he was there, the team was managing the earlier stages of the Zach Parise and [...]
Some quick news bits from the last few days. First, Evgeni Kuznetsov is in the process of having his contract with the Carolina Hurricanes terminated – quick article here on the background of that, assuming it does get finalized. Whether the actual legal part of the contract termination is a mutual termination or a buyout, [...]
We may have a Sidney Crosby extension announced very soon. With his next contract, Crosby would have a chance to pass Nicklas Lindstrom for the most games played with one single franchise (he’s about four seasons back of that title). He’s also chasing down Mario Lemieux’s franchise record for points. Even now we can say [...]
