Ramblings on Devin Setoguchi, Aaron Ekblad and Jonathan Toews' wake surfboard. * We were in danger of living through the single slowest news day of the hockey year on Saturday, but that was before Calgary Flames general manager Brad Treliving heroically stepped up and signed Devin Setoguchi to a one-year, one-way, $750k contract. [...]
The data revolution, and how it can inform decision making in fantasy hockey.
Thoughts on Semin's injury, Methot's stalemate and the bottom line in Broward County. * It would seem that Alexander Semin is still recovering from wrist surgery, a procedure the skilled Russian-born winger underwent in late May. That's a bad sign for the Hurricanes obviously, and might give me some pause in gambling on [...]
The Contrarian wants to challenge you to beat the consensus.
You can now download Dobber’s 2014-15 Fantasy Hockey Guide, so what are you waiting for? Go do it now! * It was a surprisingly busy Saturday of hockey news, particularly considering that it was the August long weekend. Obviously we'll start with P.K. Subban's $72-million, eight-year settlement with the Montreal Canadiens - a [...]
Montreal Canadiens defender P.K. Subban isn't sharing details regarding the state of contract negotiation between his camp (he's represented by Don Meehan of Newport Sports Agency), and the Canadiens. In this case, no news is probably good news for Habs fans, even if it's bad news for pageview hungry hockey bloggers. Subban did reveal that [...]
Yesterday I predicted that Thursday, July 24th would be one of the slowest hockey news days of the year. I was wrong, ultimately, thanks to Lars Eller's extremely interesting four-year, $14 million settlement. Eller was also my prediction for "the most likely scheduled salary arbitration hearing to actually occur," but he's now the 12th [...]
It certainly seems like we're not going to get an actual arbitration hearing again this summer. All 15 of the scheuled salary arbitration hearings a year ago were settled, and with Ryan O'Reilly and the Avalanche agreeing to terms on a two-year, $12 million settlement on Wednesday morning, it seems likely that no one [...]
Motivated, hungry, cheap - on free agents, one-year contracts and redemption seasons.
11 days left in July and, yep, the big hockey news of the day is Lee Stempniak signing a one-year, $900K contract with the New York Rangers. That's tremendous value for a New York team that has lost a whole whack of depth this summer. Though Stempniak is pretty much the least "sexy" name [...]
