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Fantasy Take: Dallas Stars Hire Glen Gulutzan As New Bench Boss

By |2025-07-01T13:56:53-04:00July 1st, 2025|Fantasy Take - Latest NHL Moves|

The Dallas Stars fired coach Peter DeBoer after another exit in the Western Conference Final but a lot of the coaching options dried up fast. Just after free agency opened on Tuesday, the Stars announced that they had hired Glen Gulutzan to be their next head coach. For fantasy, it’s hard to imagine Gulutzan having [...]

Fantasy Take: Rangers Land Gavrikov For Seven Years

By |2025-07-01T13:15:01-04:00July 1st, 2025|Fantasy Take - Latest NHL Moves|

One of the worst-kept secrets heading into free agency was that the New York Rangers seemed to be the front-runners to land (now-former) Los Angeles Kings defenceman Vladislav Gavrikov. According to Pierre LeBrun, they did exactly that and terms are a seven-year deal with a $7M AAV. This gives the Rangers a stalwart defensive defenceman [...]

Fantasy Take: Montreal and St. Louis Exchange Mailloux and Bolduc

By |2025-07-01T12:51:34-04:00July 1st, 2025|Fantasy Take - Latest NHL Moves|

One trade option that seemed to be in play for the Montreal Canadiens was prospect defenceman Logan Mailloux. With Alex Carrier added to the roster last season, Noah Dobson just being acquired via trade, and David Reinbacher (hopefully) a lineup regular in the next 1-2 years, trading Mailloux made sense. They did just that on [...]

Fantasy Take: Edmonton Oilers Ship Viktor Arvidsson to Boston Bruins

By |2025-07-01T12:12:07-04:00July 1st, 2025|Fantasy Take - Latest NHL Moves|

The Edmonton Oilers kicked off their free agent frenzy not with a signing but with a trade by unloading winger Viktor Arvidsson to the Boston Bruins. According to Boston writer Scott McLaughlin, the compensation going back to the Oilers is a fifth-round pick in 2027. Arvidsson was mostly healthy this season, playing 67 games, which [...]

Ramblings: Marner, Maccelli, and Tarasenko Traded; Florida Signs Marchand and Ekblad, Romanov and Provorov Extend Their Stay; Thoughts on Knies, Quinn, and More – July 1

By |2025-07-01T00:14:58-04:00July 1st, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

There was a lot of movement and signings made the day before free agency so let’s get to it. There was a lot of movement and signings made the day before free agency so let’s get to it. The big news of the day was that the rumoured sign-and-trade between Toronto and Vegas involving Mitch [...]

Fantasy Take: Montreal Deals for Dobson, Send Heineman and Picks to New York

By |2025-06-27T14:46:41-04:00June 27th, 2025|Fantasy Take - Latest NHL Moves|

The Montreal Canadiens making it to the 2025 postseason was the sign that the tear-down/rebuild portion of the current era was over and it was time to start working on the roster’s weaknesses. There are still significant upgrades that need to be made, especially as far as adding veteran, impact players is concerned. The Canadiens [...]

Fantasy Take: Sabres Ship Peterka to Utah for Kesselring, Doan

By |2025-06-26T08:19:10-04:00June 26th, 2025|Fantasy Take - Latest NHL Moves|

There was a significant trade made overnight on Thursday as the rumoured dealing of JJ Peterka finally came to fruition. The former Buffalo Sabres winger had his name in trade rumours going back months into the 2024-25 regular season, and though trading a 23-year-old winger with 55 goals over the last two seasons and coming [...]

Ramblings: Kane Traded to Canucks; Down Years for Pettersson, Bedard, Konecny, and Fox, and Whether to Buy, Sell, or Hold – June 26

By |2025-06-26T11:29:33-04:00June 26th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

The NHL Entry Draft takes place this weekend in Los Angeles and to get prepared for the draft, be sure to grab a copy of the 2025 Dobber Fantasy Hockey Prospects Report! It has a breakdown of this year’s crop of draftees, an in-depth look at each NHL team’s prospect pool, and a whole lot [...]

Ramblings: Zegras Traded; Lohrei Extended; Trade or Keep for Marchenko, Cooley, Eklund, and Edvinsson – June 24

By |2025-06-23T17:37:26-04:00June 24th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

The NHL Entry Draft takes place this weekend in Los Angeles and to get prepared for the draft, be sure to grab a copy of the 2025 Dobber Fantasy Hockey Prospects Report! It has a breakdown of this year’s crop of draftees, an in-depth look at each NHL team’s prospect pool, and a whole lot [...]

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