This week's Capped continues our series looking into how to project player salaries by focusing on bridge deals and extensions. **** The toughest part of projecting salaries is not the big free agents, we know that they are going to get paid (and in fact they are usually overpaid). The hardest contracts to project [...]
This week's Capped continues our series looking into how to project player salaries. **** I look forward to the World Juniors every year, more so than anything hockey related outside of the Stanley Cup playoffs. This means that when I had the opportunity to travel to Buffalo and see the Canadian World Junior team [...]
This week's Capped begins a series looking into how to project player salaries. **** A happy new year to everyone. Hopefully you all enjoyed the break, but now it is back to work, and we don’t miss a week here either. With 2018 upon us, I looked back through the past year of the [...]
This week's Capped quacks about Ryan Kesler’s return for the Ducks. **** Ryan Kesler made his return for the Ducks last night, and looks like he has a little rust to work off, going minus three, with three giveaways, and a showing of less than 50% in the faceoff circle in just under 16 [...]
This week's Capped digs into the comments made by Drew Doughty & Erik Karlsson, and what they mean for the NHL as a whole. **** One nice thing about the NHL, is that they aren’t the NBA. Let me explain. In the NHL, players don’t collaborate to stack a team, challenging the integrity of [...]
This week's Capped discusses the news that the salary cap will be increasing between four and seven percent for the upcoming season. **** The old adage says that the rich get richer. Well it seems as though upcoming free agents are going to be ending up with a little extra pocket change again this [...]
This week's Capped covers some names who are underperforming compared to their cap hit, determining who is in a slump and who may be overvalued. **** Some managers are getting pretty desperate to save their fantasy seasons at this point, and there are varying degrees of panic. If you are one of those managers, [...]
This week's Capped covers some names who are impressing in the first quarter, as well as having a contract worth pursuing in Cap leagues. **** December is almost here, meaning that NHL teams can take a look in the mirror and actually have something meaningful to reflect on. The NHL standings never seem to change [...]
This week's Capped reviews the key aspects of making a blockbuster trade in a cap league, building off of last week. **** As I stated in last week’s article, “around mid-November is the time I find second-most active in trade markets, behind only trade-deadline week”. Over the last 10 days, I have pulled off two [...]
This week's Capped reviews the key aspects of making a blockbuster trade in a cap league. **** There have not been many transactions of note in the last week in the cap world, so we look elsewhere for topics this week. At this point in time, we are around the quarter mark of the season. [...]
