Hockey Rambling

In Wednesday’s Ramblings, we talked about defencemen that had recently changed teams via trades. It really was a neat little four-pack of important players, for different reasons, that were all on the move. The through line for all the guys we mentioned, though, was that none were likely to get top power-play minutes in 2021-22, [...]

Yesterday in these Ramblings, we discussed the impact of free agency and signings on either the acquiring team or the team losing a player. There has been some recent movement in the league that I haven’t touched on yet and is important to get to. For that reason, we’ll be talking about a lot of [...]

Free agency has settled considerably and though there still are some significant names left, even outside Nazem Kadri, many teams have done most of the shopping they’re going to. Or, at least, all the significant shopping they’re going to do. For anyone who wants to read on the individual impacts from the signings, we covered [...]

Now that the dust has somewhat settled on free agency, it’s a good idea to examine the ripple of effect of some of the signings. Everyone likes to talk about what a player’s new team will mean for them and their teammate’s fantasy value, but what about the team they left behind? Take Johnny Gaudreau [...]

The Penguins made two trades on Saturday. First, they traded John Marino to the Devils for Ty Smith and a 2023 third-round pick. For the Devils side of the trade, you can check out the Fantasy Take here. Where’s the Pittsburgh side, you ask? Well, I included it in there at first. Then the Penguins [...]

Day 3 of free agency was even quieter than Day 2, and that’s saying something. There were a few signings of note, though. The Leafs have signed Calle Jarnkrok to a four-year contract worth $2.1 million. After spending his entire career with Nashville, the 30-year-old center split last season between Seattle and Calgary. With 26 [...]

Day 2 of free agency was only a tiny fraction as busy as Day 1 (as you'd expect), but there was still some news to pass along. The Ottawa Senators might be having the best offseason of any team, and it keeps getting better. Following their recent acquisitions of Alex DeBrincat, Cam Talbot, and Claude [...]

While we didn’t have a couple of the big dominoes fall on the first day of free agency, namely Evgeni Malkin and Ondrej Palat, there were lots of signings with significant fantasy impact to discuss. For anyone that missed the coverage, the entire Dobber editing group pitched in to cover all the big names, and [...]

The Fantasy Prospects Report was updated Monday, with notes in the Draftees section stating when they were drafted and by which team – and then handy links to and from that team’s section. As well as any prospects who weren’t given qualifying offers (and thus became UFA’s). News and Re-Signings of the day (updated through [...]

Monday was the day for teams to either qualify their restricted free agents or not. In short, if teams don’t send a qualifying offer to an RFA, that player turns into an unrestricted free agent. The Chicago Blackhawks failed to qualify Pius Suter a year ago and he went and signed with Detroit. Ondrej Kase [...]