Hockey Rambling

Ottawa locked up another one of its core pieces on Wednesday as they signed centre/winger Tim Stützle to an eight-year deal worth north of $8M a year on the cap. The third overall pick from 2020 has one year left on his entry-level deal, managed 22 goals and 36 assists last season, and is primed [...]

There are a handful of prominent restricted free agents left to sign with their teams, among them Jason Robertson in Dallas, Rasmus Sandin in Toronto, Barrett Hayton in Arizona, and Kirby Dach in Montreal. One of those guys was locked up for four years on Wednesday morning: https://twitter.com/CanadiensMTL/status/1567497952196804610 This doesn’t seem like a bad bet [...]

Every year I put together a bit of a schedule planner for myself to look ahead to the games played by each NHL team in the fantasy finals weeks. The last few years it has been less useful with any planning around Covid schedules being a complete crapshoot. This year though we can anticipate (with [...]

Labour Day weekend is behind us, football is around the corner, and that means fantasy hockey draft season is in full swing. While we (including you, dear reader) have been getting ready basically before the 2022 Stanley Cup was even handed out, there’s a difference between researching and actually drafting. Sitting at the table – [...]

OUT NOW! I released the Fantasy Guide on August 4, and the last update is September 4 with the Kulikov trade, Steel signing, plus my projected NHL standings. Pick up the Fantasy Guide here and immediately download both the PDF and the spreadsheet. One more feature article left and you can expect it this week [...]

Yesterday I listed a few players that I think are being drafted too high based on the fact that they are more likely to be autopicked (at least when I autopicked in a few mock drafts). Listing players to move down your rankings also begs the question of which players you could probably reach a [...]

The Vancouver Canucks have decided not to trade J.T. Miller after all, instead signing him to a seven-year extension worth $8 million per season. Cap leaguers should consider the new contract a very reasonable cap hit, even if it is a significant raise over his current $5.25 million cap hit. Miller finished this past season [...]

Anyone relying on Jake Oettinger this season no longer needs to worry about his contract status. The Stars signed Oettinger to a three-year extension worth $4 million per season. This amount certainly seems affordable given the upside that Oettinger showed in last season’s playoffs (7 GP, 1.81 GAA, .954 SV%, 7 QS). The Stars still [...]

The big news from the last couple of days is surely the huge extension from Sabres centre Tage Thompson. He signed a seven-year, $7-million AAV contract with Buffalo, a deal that will take him through to his early 30s ($7.14M per year, to be exact). Alex wrote about this in his Ramblings yesterday, covering the [...]

After covering for Ian this weekend this is going to be the fourth time in eight days that I’m rambling. Not sure how Ian and Cliffy do multiple days every week. It’s especially tough in the middle of August. Luckily though we have had a bit of news the last couple days though, most recent [...]