The St. Louis Blues have signed center Tyler Bozak to a three-year contract worth $5 million per season. The Blues get: a player who is an elite third-line center, a decent second-line center or a weak first-line center. Bozak is a go-to guy on the faceoffs and he can contribute to both special teams. [...]
Derek Ryan Signs With Flames […]
Fantasy Take: Vanek Back To Detroit […]
It wasn’t long ago that Detroit’s goaltending future seemed certain. Jimmy Howard had a few years left on his deal while Petr Mrazek was the heir apparent after stringing together a couple of solid seasons in a row. Things change quickly. With Mrazek gone and Howard having just one year left, Detroit needed to [...]
With Anton Khudobin moving on to Dallas, the Bruins were in need of filling their backup position and did not waste time by agreeing on a two-year deal with Jaroslav Halak carrying an AAV of $2.75-million. Halak has had an interesting career. There are times over the last decade, in Montreal and St. Louis mostly, where [...]
Every Sunday until the start of the 2018-19 regular season, we'll share 20 Fantasy Thoughts from our writers at DobberHockey. These thoughts are curated from the past week's "Daily Ramblings". Writers: Michael Clifford, Ian Gooding, Cam Robinson, and Dobber 1. First thing about Conor Sheary: he can finish. Across three seasons spanning 184 games [...]
The St. Louis Blues have signed winger David Perron to a four-year contract worth $4 million per season. Welcome to DobberHockey's Free Agent Frenzy 2018! We've been here covering this day every year since 2005 The Blues get: the player they lost to expansion last summer. In fact, this will be Perron’s third stint [...]
The NHL draft is always full of surprises and this year was no different. Things got started early with a surprise top-five pick and continued throughout the first round. Here are a few such picks that caused a few eyebrows to raise on the draft floor. Barrett Hayton While the first four picks [...]
Once Barry Trotz resigned from head coaching duties of the Washington Capitals, the assumption was that associate coach Todd Reirden would take over. This finally came to pass on Friday afternoon as Washington named Reirden as the team’s new head coach. Reirden has been on the Capitals coaching staff since 2014, as outlined in [...]
