The last player that was scheduled to have an arbitration hearing agreed to a contract on Saturday. Travis Sanheim signed a two-year contract with an AAV of $4.675 million with the Flyers. That contract makes Sanheim the fourth-highest paid defenseman on the Flyers, behind Ivan Provorov and newly acquired Ryan Ellis and Rasmus Ristolainen. Those [...]
King Henrik is calling it a career. Henrik Lundqvist finishes off with a 459-310-96 record, a 2.43 GAA, .918 SV% and 64 SO in 15 seasons, all with the Rangers. Remember that he signed with the Capitals during the past offseason but could not play due to a heart condition, so it’s a shame if [...]
Get your Fantasy Guide if you haven’t already! If you want to win your fantasy league this season, it is a must-own. Better yet, combine it with the Fantasy Hockey Geek, which is available this week! The Geek takes the Dobber projections, then allows you to customize values for your league’s scoring system. https://twitter.com/FantasyHockeyGk/status/1428013698598244362 In [...]
For the last 18 years (12 with The Hockey News) Dobber has reviewed each team from a fantasy-hockey standpoint and graded them. The 19th annual review will appear here on DobberHockey throughout the summer…er, winter. This is not a review of the likely performance on the ice or in the standings, but in the realm [...]
Now that the free agent frenzy and main trade period have passed, we are now in the dog days of the offseason. Some of the offseason signings have resulted in major swings in value for certain players. As you can see in the Change column, the greatest swings in value (positive or negative) are from [...]
It’s Christmas in (checks month) August today! Get your Fantasy Guide at the Dobber Sports shop. If you’ve preordered it, you should now be able to download it by going to Downloads on the Dobber home page. Go ahead, order it and download it, and come back and read the Ramblings later. I’ll wait here. [...]
In news that seemed to arrive completely out of left field, Joe Thornton has signed a one-year, $750,000 contract with the Florida Panthers. Thornton is picking a team that he believes can help him land that elusive Stanley Cup (fill in obvious Florida retirement home joke here). In case you think Thornton is washed up, [...]
The Jets and Andrew Copp avoided arbitration, agreeing to a one-year, $3.64 million extension. In a shortened season, Copp set career highs in both goals (15) and points (39). In other words, he was very quietly on a 58-point pace. That’s not bad for a player who received spurts of top-6 icetime, but whose most [...]
Yes, as the title suggests, today’s Ramblings will mainly focus on goalies. But I need to get a few other things out of the way first. - It was a slow news day on Saturday. The only semi-noteworthy signing was Brendan Perlini signing a one-year, two-way contract with the Oilers. Perlini was drafted in the [...]
Darnell Nurse landed the big one on Friday, signing an eight-year contract worth $74 million ($9.25 million cap hit), to start in 2022-23. Nurse is now 26, so this contract will expire when he is 35. Like many long-term deals, it may not look pretty at the end. But Nurse is a critical part of [...]
