Fantasy Impact: The Buffalo Sabres have acquired prospect forward Jimmy Vesey from the Nashville Predators for a third-round pick in 2016. The Predators get: the 76th overall pick for a player who had no plans to sign with them and instead would become an unrestricted free agent. Vesey was drafted 66th overall in 2012, [...]
Fantasy Impact: The Toronto Maple Leafs have acquired goaltender Frederik Andersen from the Anaheim Ducks for the 30th overall draft pick this weekend, as well as a 2017 second-round pick. The Ducks get: a quality pick and a bit of cap space, as well as some freedom from another year of 'goalie controversy'. [...]
Libin takes a close look at Mathieu Perreault and Bo Horvat. What can you expect in the season ahead? Second-liners in the NHL come in a variety of forms, the way each team uses its second line will dictate the value of each second-liner. Second-liners are often expected to produce between 40 to 60 [...]
The Top 10 reliable plus-minus players in the league today The plus/minus. Has any statistic in any sport ever been so controversial? So many people seem to hate it for its simplicity, but that simplicity is what makes it useful in fantasy hockey. Despite a movement to get away from the stat, there are [...]
Pavel Datsyuk's departure creates many possibilities, both for the Wings and for other teams. […]
The Journey examines Dobber’s top 50 prospect defensemen list and assesses the fast risers in the June rankings. […]
The Calgary Flames have hired Glen Gulutzan to be the team's next head coach. **** With Guy Boucher going to Ottawa, and Randy Carlyle to Anaheim, the head coaching positions were starting to thin out in the NHL. Today, Calgary named for Dallas Stars head coach Glen Gulutzan as the next bench boss for the [...]
This week's Frozen Pool Forensics discusses the future for Pittsburgh's rookies. **** Despite what you may have heard from those interviewed on the Jimmy Kimmel Show, the Pittsburgh Penguins are your 2015-2016 Stanley Cup Champions. A great deal of their victory can be attributed to the laundry list of what went right, a notion spreads [...]
The Dallas Stars have traded the rights to Alex Goligoski to the Arizona Coyotes. **** Earlier today, there was another casualty of the cap crunch being faced by teams pushing the upper limit. Teuvo Teravainen was packaged in a deal with Bryan Bickell yesterday, and this afternoon, Alex Goligoski was traded from the Dallas Stars [...]
Fantasy Impact: Carolina has acquired young winger Teuvo Teravainen from the Chicago Blackhawks in exchange for cap relief. The exact deal - Teravainen and Bryan Bickell to the Hurricanes for a second-round pick this summer (50th overall) and a third-round pick in 2017. The Hurricanes get: a potential star in Teravainen and a [...]
