The season is upon us. With it comes part four of the ‘buy’ and ‘sell’ series. You can find the first three parts here: Part I, Part II, Part III. This week we’ll cover the New York Islanders to the Seattle Kraken with perhaps another surprise selection or two. Again, I intentionally exclude superstars on [...]
Here we go, Buy and Sell part III. If you missed the first two parts you can link here to part I and part II where I’ve covered Anaheim to Edmonton so far and players such as Chychrun, Coyle, D. Strome, Werenski, Makar and Hintz. Let’s get to it… Florida Panthers BUY: MacKenzie Weegar (D) [...]
Hey folks welcome back for part two. I’ll skip all pre-amble and just jump right into the next six teams. Anyone that missed our first part can find it here. In it, we covered players like Chychrun, Shattenkirk, Markstrom, and Coyle. Chicago Black Hawks BUY: Dylan Strome (C) $3M, 1 year This is admittedly a [...]
We are just over three weeks from puck drop on the 2021-22 NHL season. No better way to reignite the Capped article then to start of with a team by team, buy-sell series. I will be excluding all entry-level contract players as well as all your elite players/superstars. Those player values speak for themselves. Player [...]
The last several 'Capped' instalments have been about players providing above- and below-average value on their contracts. Last week we talked about players like DeBrincat and Couturier. The rest of the series can be found here. Today is our final piece in this series. Tyson Barrie – Defence – Edmonton Oilers ($3.75M) I’ll admit, I [...]
Same as the last two weeks, I will review two players that fall into each category. The good will cover players that produced over expectations and provided really good-to-exceptional value to their cap hit. The ‘bad’ – perhaps better viewed as fair market value, or players that produced on par with salary expectations. The ugly, [...]
Welcome back for part 2 of The Good, The Bad (fair) and The Ugly In the same vein as last week, I will review two players that fall into each category. The good will cover players that produced over expectations & provided really good to exceptional value to their cap hit. The ‘bad’ – perhaps [...]
Every year we set expectations on players and predict final season totals. Every year there are players that come out of nowhere and surprise us. There are those players that perform almost point for point as expected, those ‘plug and play’ performers. And then there are those players we set high expectations on that disappoint [...]
Here we are, Part V team by team coverage of this years unrestricted free agents. In reverse alphabetical order we go from Colorado to Anaheim. Once again, I’ve used Alex MacLean’s free agent salary projection list as a reference point which you can find here. The rest of this 'Capped' series can be found right [...]
Here we go, part four. This week we’ll check out the Los Angeles Kings, Florida Panthers, Edmonton Oilers, Detroit Red Wings, Dallas Stars, and the Columbus Blue Jackets. Again, we run into teams with little-to-nothing in the way of unrestricted free agents. As previous I’ll improvise to give coverage to players that deserve to be [...]
