Philadelphia faltered last year and though it was clearly goaltending that sunk the team, they have decided to go out and overhaul their blue line anyway. That started with dumping Shayne Gostisbehere’s contract, trading for both Rasmus Ristolainen and Ryan Ellis. They still have Cam York waiting in the wings, but they went out and [...]
Following the signing of Barclay Goodrow in New York to six years at $3.6M a season, everyone knew that Blake Coleman would get more. He is the guy that can score and bringing what Goodrow can, only amplified and with a scoring touch, was going to bring more in free agency. How much more was [...]
Ever since the emergence of Ondrej Palat, Nikita Kucherov, and Tyler Johnson at varying stages of their careers in Tampa Bay, teams have been looking in the minor leagues for the next big thing. Funny enough, a lot of current/future NHL stars that were in the minors were also developed by Tampa Bay. We are [...]
With Stephen Johns retiring and Jamie Oleksiak moving on to Seattle, the Stars were in dire straits for their blue line. That is a huge, huge problem for a team that is pushing for a Stanley Cup this year. Dallas has attempted to solidify their back-end a bit by signing veteran defenceman Ryan Suter to [...]
Winnipeg’s blue line overhaul continues. It is a necessary overhaul because it was the glaring weakness of the team last year, and really has been ever since the retirement of Dustin Byfuglien. They are trying to piece it back together and managed to retain Dylan DeMelo through the Expansion Draft. Winnipeg went out and got [...]
If this trade is going to be a harbinger of things to come, we are going to be in for a wild, wild offseason. Not that long ago, Alex Nedeljkovic – the goalie who looked the future in net for Carolina and was a finalist for Rooke of the Year – was traded to Detroit [...]
Well, what a week last week was. We saw blockbuster trades, an expansion draft, and the entry draft all squeezed into a span of 3-4 days. I would not blame anyone for having missed a deal or a trade here and there, so I’ll link all our stuff quickly. All our Ramblings are archived here [...]
Carolina completed their second somewhat vexing trade of the week on Friday. Earlier, they shipped off Alex Nedeljkovic to Detroit for a mid-round pick and the rights to Jonathan Bernier. Not exactly what Carolina fans were hoping for, I think, for a goalie who’d gone through their system and was a finalist for the Calder [...]
The rumours had been swirling basically all year that Seth Jones would be traded and that happened about an hour before the 2021 NHL Entry Draft. As had been rumoured, the Chicago Blackhawks have acquired the 26-year-old blue liner and subsequently extended him for seven years. It really took me a minute to get my [...]
This one kind of hits home because as a fantasy analyst, there are players we have to believe in. There are players that come along and the analyst identifies something they like about the player and start of sort to root for them. Bias can set in here so it’s a very tricky path to [...]
