The NHL Awards were Wednesday night but the big news item of the day was the news that Anaheim would be buying out Corey Perry from his contract. The Ducks will save six million in cap space this year, two million next year, and then carry two million in dead money the year after. [...]
With the monster Erik Karlsson extension still fresh, it was obvious the Sharks would have to make moves to fit both Timo Meier and Kevin Labanc under the cap, along with some smaller signings, while still losing the likes of Joe Pavelski, Joonas Donskoi, and Gustav Nyquist to free agency. My hope was that [...]
There have been rumours swirling around Jacob Trouba being traded for years but Monday night, the Winnipeg cap crunch reared its head as Trouba was shipped to the New York Rangers in exchange for defenceman Neal Pionk and Winnipeg’s original first round pick that was sent in the Kevin Hayes trade. (Whether it was [...]
Aside from the Raptors championship parade in Canada, there was pretty big news on the sports front as Erik Karlsson was reported by Pierre LeBrun to have signed an eight-year deal with the San Jose, carrying an average annual value of $11.5-million. As of today, that would be the third-highest cap hit in the [...]
Game 7 Stanley Cup Final. It took two months but we got there eventually. For some reason this felt like a BASEketball season. It was a period that coaches and players have nightmares about. Boston was absolutely running St. Louis out of the rink for most of the first frame. The Blues went about [...]
Last Friday, the Buffalo Sabres announced that winger Jeff Skinner had signed an eight-year extension carrying an average annual value of $9-million. Naturally, there was a little bit of hubbub when this was announced. Let’s take a look at Skinner and his value step by step. This isn’t directly fantasy-related and I do apologize [...]
I like to read about hockey a lot but mostly they’re stats-centric articles. How a player has performed beyond traditional stats, what new stats are on the horizon, how systems and coaches affect players, and the like. I also read the human interest pieces because they are fascinating, but they’re fewer and further between. [...]
St. Louis evened the Stanley Cup Final at two games each on Monday night with a 4-2 win over Boston. While this game didn’t feature the out-and-out nastiness and dirty play that we’ve seen at times, it didn’t lack for physicality, particularly in the second period. The story was Ryan O’Reilly. It seemed like he [...]
Our first overtime game of the Stanley Cup Final went the way of the St. Louis Blues by a score of 3-2 thanks to a point shot from Carl Gunnarsson on a delayed penalty. This was a much different game than the first as St. Louis was the better team on this night and [...]
It had been rumoured for a few weeks now, but the announcement came down Tuesday morning that there would be a press conference that afternoon and then Elliotte Friedman confrimed it: Dave Tippett will be the next head coach for the Edmonton Oilers. Tippett should be a familiar name to hockey fans as he [...]
