The Pittsburgh Penguins have traded diminutive winger Conor Sheary, along with defenseman Matt Hunwick to the Buffalo Sabres for a conditional fourth-round draft pick that can become a third rounder if certain conditions are met. The Penguins get: over $5 million in salary relief. I stress time and again on here how important this [...]
This was mentioned last week, but again, the salary cap for the upcoming 2018-2019 season will be $79.5M. Adjust accordingly. **** Between the Entry Draft and Free-Agent Frenzy day, this week is one of the best of the summer. The draft is a day full of hope (and usually torment if you live anywhere [...]
It pains me every year to start looking at goalie stats, picking goalies is notoriously difficult. Do you hate picking goalies so much that you’ll sacrifice a first round pick on Carey Price just so you can set it and forget it? Right, and then last season happens are you’re sitting there with the thoughts [...]
The fantasy world can be a fickle one. Maybe you always seem to wind up drafting players who are constantly injured. When you wise up and stop drafting them, they no longer get injured. Just because a player is a Band-Aid boy, doesn’t mean he’ll always stay there. In fact, there are numerous players [...]
We are back this week for round two of our summer series, this week featuring Arizona. The idea is to compare end of 2017-18 Fantasy Hockey Geek rankings for individual players with an expected ranking based on their average draft positions from the start of the year. This process does not necessarily identify who [...]
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". […]
The Calgary Flames have traded defenseman Dougie Hamilton, winger Micheal Ferland, and prospect blueliner Adam Fox to the Carolina Hurricanes for defenseman Noah Hanifin and forward Elias Lindholm. The Flames get: A recent fifth overall draft pick who is a stud defensively and has untapped offensive potential. Hanifin hasn’t even come close to [...]
The Los Angeles Kings have signed "retired" free agent forward Ilya Kovalchuk to a three-year deal worth $6.25 million per season. The 35-year-old winger played the last five seasons in the KHL. The Kings get: A proven NHL player and five-time 40-goal scorer, two-time 50-goal scorer. And Kovalchuk's 141 points (63 goals) over the [...]
