Andrei Markov is moving on from the NHL, as it came out on Thursday that he wouldn’t be signing anywhere in the league. Since getting to the NHL as a 22-year-old in the 2000-01 season, he amassed 572 points in 990 career regular season games. He played his entire career with the Montreal Canadiens. This [...]
With all the young talent in Toronto, there's one veteran forward who is better than you think. […]
The largest NHL news from Thursday was that Andrei Markov will be playing in the KHL in 2017-18. It's worth noting that the veteran defenseman hasn't ruled out a return to the NHL in the future, but that after failing to ink a deal with Montreal this year, he's bolting for Russia. [...]
The Restricted Free Agent (RFA) signings are starting to trickle in, and while we are still waiting on the big guns (Leon Draisaitl, David Pastrnak, etc.) there are many fantasy-relevant ones to comb over. The last few weeks have seen several similar contracts get inked by emerging players in their early twenties. However not every [...]
A couple days ago, the New York Rangers locked up their current (and future) first-line centre, Mika Zibanejad, for five years with an AAV of $5.35 million. With Derek Stepan now in Arizona, Zibanejad will undoubtedly be given top-line minutes – as far as goes for the Rangers – though his deployment remains to be [...]
We continue our summer Cage Match Tournament with forwards that may have yet to peak. […]
Zibanejad signing, players who may have jumped the shark […]
Montreal signed Mark Streit to a one-year, $700,000 contract Tuesday. […]
If we judge success by the number of Stanley Cups won, and we probably should, the Penguins are now tied with the Oilers for the most Stanley Cups amongst non-Original Six teams. They have two of the games top players in Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, a couple of world class talents in Kris [...]
While the remaining class of unrestricted free agents isn't the be-all, end-all indication of the NHL trend of teams moving to younger and younger rosters, it certainly is telling. Of the 38 UFAs that played at least 40 games in the NHL last season only seven are under 30. Those seven: Dwight King, [...]
