The Tampa Bay Lightning were likely to lose a few players again, and they began their annual summer purge today with Ross Colton being shipped out to the Avalanche. Colton comes into a spot recently vacated by the trade of Alex Newhook, and with a few other players departing via free agency, the Avalanche have [...]
The exodus from Calgary has begun as there have been a number of rumoured trade requests, cap crunches, or difficulties with contract extensions from the likes of Mikael Backlund, Elias Lindholm, and Tyler Toffoli, to name a few. There has been a lot of upheaval in Calgary that started a year ago with the huge [...]
Welcome back to another edition of the Roos Lets Loose monthly mailbag, where I answer your fantasy hockey questions by giving advice that should be useful to all poolies even if they don’t own the specific players being discussed. As a reminder, if you want your fantasy hockey question(s) answered in the next mailbag, check [...]
One of the big storylines of the 2023 NHL offseason is the Winnipeg Jets and what they would do with their stars. It seems as if they are ready to unload a bevy of players, a few of them being core pieces for the last few or even several years, to try and turn the [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll discuss draft day storylines that could affect fantasy outlooks for the 2023-2024 campaign. Boston Bruins – Financial Ruins for the Bruins The Bruins cleared up a fair bit of cap space when they sent Taylor Hall to Chicago on Monday. Although they have more room to breathe now, [...]
The Montreal Canadiens have been tied to trade talks with Pierre-Luc Dubois for some time now, but the latest rumours are pointing to a trade between Winninpeg and Los Angeles sooner rather than later. It appears that this made the Canadiens pivot and look for help elsewhere. Perhaps they took inspiration from the re-emergence of [...]
With new management in Philadelphia and coach John Tortorella establishing his favourites, the clock was ticking on Kevin Hayes’s tenure as a Flyer. The catch with Hayes was his contract, which has three years left, carries an average annual value over $7.1M, and a partial no-trade clause to boot. Philadelphia decided to retain half the [...]
Hello my Salary Cap-friendlies! Most of you know me from the Looking Ahead articles here at DobberHockey (with new articles out every Friday during the season, tell a friend), but I will now also be here to talk all things salary life and love this upcoming season. My qualifications you may ask. Well besides being [...]
The Boston Bruins traded winger Taylor Hall and pending UFA winger Nick Foligno to the Chicago Blackhawks in exchange for prospect defensemen Ian Mitchell and Alec Regula. The Blackhawks get: a former star winger in Hall, who is now a shadow of his former self. With Boston, Hall was a regular middle-six winger who saw [...]
Hadi Kalakeche of Dobber Prospects joins the show to preview the 2023 NHL entry draft.
