One of the more notable free agents left on the board signed on with a new team on Thursday morning. Nino Niederreiter, the recent Carolina Hurricane winger, latched onto Nashville for a two-year deal carrying an average annual value of $4M. Here is the breaking news from Elliotte Friedman: https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/1550133872070987776 Let’s get to what this [...]
In Wednesday’s Ramblings, we talked about defencemen that had recently changed teams via trades. It really was a neat little four-pack of important players, for different reasons, that were all on the move. The through line for all the guys we mentioned, though, was that none were likely to get top power-play minutes in 2021-22, [...]
Yesterday in these Ramblings, we discussed the impact of free agency and signings on either the acquiring team or the team losing a player. There has been some recent movement in the league that I haven’t touched on yet and is important to get to. For that reason, we’ll be talking about a lot of [...]
Free agency has settled considerably and though there still are some significant names left, even outside Nazem Kadri, many teams have done most of the shopping they’re going to. Or, at least, all the significant shopping they’re going to do. For anyone who wants to read on the individual impacts from the signings, we covered [...]
One of the most shocking non-qualified RFAs to come out of the 2021-22 season was Dylan Strome from Chicago. It seemed certain Strome would catch on somewhere, likely with a top-end team that would need a middle-6 scoring centre. That’s exactly what ended up happening: https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/1547695918522064897 Let’s get to this signing. What Washington Gets When [...]
The Florida Panthers were up against the cap this offseason, which is one reason why both Claude Giroux and Mason Marchment moved on to other teams. They would be looking at cheap depth signings which is why they got guys like Marc Staal and Colin White on low-cost one-year deals. They continued their bargain hunting [...]
While we didn’t have a couple of the big dominoes fall on the first day of free agency, namely Evgeni Malkin and Ondrej Palat, there were lots of signings with significant fantasy impact to discuss. For anyone that missed the coverage, the entire Dobber editing group pitched in to cover all the big names, and [...]
The biggest shocker of Free Agent Frenzy had nothing to do with free agents, or at least not directly. It was the trade of Max Pacioretty and Dylan Coghlan to Carolina in exchange for future considerations. Those aren’t typos, it was a straight cap dump: https://twitter.com/DarrenDreger/status/1547337818334269442 Let’s break this down. What Carolina Gets While Pacioretty [...]
Detroit continued a very busy day of signings as they got their second-line centre in Andrew Copp, bolstered the back-end by adding Ben Chiarot and Olli Maatta, and then went and got some winger help in the form of David Perron. We got it announced a few hours after free agency opened: https://twitter.com/renlavoietva/status/1547295431339687937 It was [...]
Colin White was bought out this offseason by the Ottawa Senators, with a large reason being his age. As he is under 26 years old, they can save a lot of money against having to do it a couple years from now. They actually get a cap credit in 1 of the next 6 seasons [...]
