The New York Rangers have signed forward Brandon Pirri to a one-year contract. **** The rumours were swirling yesterday, but it was confirmed today that indeed, the New York Rangers had signed free agent forward Brandon Pirri to a one-year contract worth $1.1-million: OFFICIAL: #NYR have agreed to terms with free agent forward Brandon Pirri [...]
Roberto Luongo and James Reimer, Gibson’s Fantasy Value, Arizona/Florida Trade, and More **** As reported by George Richards of the Miami Herald on Wednesday, it appears as though Roberto Luongo is on track to start the season with the Florida Panthers. The 37-year-old had off-season hip surgery, and according to Mr. Richards, has been skating [...]
Hudler Signs in Dallas, Implications of New Data, Kuznetsov/Panarin, and More **** There had been rumours for a couple days, but the Dallas Stars have indeed signed unrestricted free agent forward Jiri Hudler to a one-year, $2-million contract. The report of the signing came from Sonny Sachdeva of Today’s Slapshot. The confirmation came from Mike [...]
Jimmy Vesey has signed a two-year contract with the New York Rangers. **** The hockey universe’s last compelling story of the summer – and ‘compelling’ is being used very loosely here – came to an end around supper time on Friday, as free agent Jimmy Vesey signed with the New York Rangers. As Samwell Tarly [...]
More players that disappointed in 2015-2016, and career years to avoid in this year's drafts. **** First, a few words about some players that should come into the season with a depressed ADP based off a poor season (or seasons). Evander Kane Clearly, the first thing to be stated here is we need to see [...]
Some disappointments from 2015-2016, World Cup tracking, Radim Vrbata, and more **** Over the summer, I’ve pointed out a few players that may come at good value next year because they disappointed fantasy owners last year. There is no time when a player’s value will be higher than just after they burned a fantasy owners [...]
Looking at some post-hype sleepers for drafts this year, including Nichushkin and Strome. **** Regardless of the fantasy sport, the term “post-hype sleeper” is prevalent. With the proliferation of fantasy information, sleepers don’t really exist anymore. In that sense, I suppose “post-hype undervalued player” is probably more accurate, but it just doesn’t have the same [...]
Ondrej Palat, Ryan Kesler, Colton Parayko, Patrick Roy quits, and more **** Ondrej Palat Just like those that drafted Tyler Johnson last year, any of the fantasy owners that drafted Ondrej Palat were disappointed with the final result. Palat missed 20 games, and managed just 40 points, which was over 20 points off the average [...]
Looking at assist rates for Draisaitl, Plekanec, Jokinen, Vlasic, and other topics **** Watching a documentary on the James Bond franchise of movies and books a year or so ago, one thing that kind of stuck with me was something said by the daughter of famed Bond movie producer Albert Broccoli, Barbara Broccoli; to paraphrase, [...]
Some defencemen to keep an eye on for next year, power play points, and more **** For most of these Ramblings, I will be talking about defencemen. At this time, the following should be kept in mind: When ranking/projecting defencemen, I cannot stress enough just how much a league’s settings matter. This is especially true [...]
