Hockey Rambling

The Detroit Red Wings were left out in the cold by UFA defensemen during the free agent frenzy and as general manager Ken Holland's comments would indicate, not to mention the exorbitant contract the club handed out to Kyle Quincey, the team is still desperate to add a right-handed shooting defender.   According to reports, [...]

The Canucks re-signed RFA Chris Tanev to a one-year deal today. * After a nightmare season last year for Alex Burrows, his time playing with the Sedins looks to be over. With the signing of Radim Vrbata, I expect him to be slotted next to Daniel and Henrik in 2014-15 and he’s got a real [...]

Happy Independence Day to our friends to the South!   *   Former DobberHockey writer Justin Goldman is coming for a visit to Toronto! To celebrate Dobber is hosting an event on Tuesday, July 29. More details can be found here.   *   As expected, things have really quieted down on the transaction front. [...]

How insane were those first few hours of free agency? I’ve never seen anything like it. Just an impressive amount of player movement in both volume and magnitude. Of course, with all that early movement there isn’t much left for the rest of summer. But I think we are all willing to accept that trade [...]

*** The Canucks are throwing a couple of Hail Mary's - besides Bobby Sanguinetti, they have also signed Cal O'Reilly (Ryan's brother) and Dustin Jeffrey. All three were very high-value prospects at one time. O'Reilly was actually leading Nashville in scoring 20 games in before breaking his leg - thus closing his window. *** Claude [...]

The DobberHockey Free Agent Frenzy Chat has opened up - Join Us! Dobber is doing the updates all day (between the triple asterisks ***) *** Andrej Meszaros has signed with Buffalo for one year at $4 million Devan Dubnyk has signed on to be Arizona's backup goalie this year. That's an interesting one, because Mike [...]

*** More Q.O. news: Winnipeg did not qualify Matt Halischuk. Calgary did not give Q.O.'s to Paul Byron, Olivier Roy nor T.J. Galiardi. Add those names to the UFA list. Although he signed with a KHL team already, Cory Emmerton is an NHL UFA as the Wings did not give him a Q.O. Tyler Cuma [...]

It was an interesting NHL draft this weekend, albeit one marked with a bit less player movement than expected.   The price of trading into the first round proved particularly exorbitant on Friday. To wit: Buffalo Sabres general manager Tim Murray was unable to move three second round picks for a first, Bryan Murray couldn't [...]

Day 2 Draft Discussion has opened up! Talk some trades, trade rumors, picks and speculation - right here!   The discussion from Day 1 can be found here - it had over 320+ posts and 5000+ reads, all from people as obsessed with fantasy hockey as you are (including, ahem, myself) - Dobber   ****  [...]

The Canucks continue to be active, grabbing Derek Dorsett off the Rangers for a third rounder. So technically they got Bonino, Sbisa, Dorsett and a 1st for Kesler.   The live draft chat is open and rolling - join the fun here. I'm (Dobber) there now!    ***   It’s Draft Day!!! No, not that [...]