Kaapo Kakko has signed a two-year extension with the Rangers with an average annual value of $2.1 million. Kakko finished the 2021-22 season with 18 points in 43 games, which would have been a 34-point pace over 82 games. He played the majority of his even-strength minutes on scoring lines last season, yet he hasn’t [...]
Like the last couple of weeks, this week will be centered around free agents that have signed new contracts, whether they signed with a new team or their previous team they are eligible to be discussed in this miniseries. This has been a very exciting offseason from the fan’s perspective, lots of player movement, lots [...]
The Sophomore Slump is something we’re all familiar with. That a young player might struggle in their second year in a pro sports league is a notion that intuitively makes sense – teams and players have had time to adjust to a new (likely superlative) talent and now the talent has to respond. It is [...]
It’s usually sound advice to not put too much stock on a skater’s performance during the Stanley Cup playoffs, what with it being a smaller sample size plus games being played under conditions less similar to the regular season due to factors such as gutting through injuries, teams focusing more – or less – on [...]
Goalies can be so tough to manage and predict year to year. It has gotten to the point that I will not invest heavily in a goaltender, because the ones like Andrei Vasilevskiy and Igor Shesterkin are too expensive to acquire, and anyone after that is too inconsistent to trust, be it Connor Hellebuyck, Robin [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll take a look at how Claude Giroux’s arrival affects the landscape in Ottawa. Last season was a tale of two cities for Claude Giroux. Although the 34-year-old forward had a solid showing overall with 65 points in 75 games, there was a stark contrast between his performance with the [...]
Here are the top 62 goalies to own in your salary cap league – May 26th, 2022 edition. The music on the goalie carousel has stopped once again, and the market seems to be just about fully shaken out. Vitek Vanecek and Alexandar Georgiev are the two winners, with Georgiev winning the plum spot in [...]
One of the most impactful trades of in recent NHL history occurred over the weekend as the long-rumoured movement of former Flames winger Matthew Tkachuk came to fruition. He was dished to Florida in exchange for Jonathan Huberdeau, MacKenzie Weegar, prospect Cole Schwindt, and a first-round pick. Dobber wrote about the trade impact back on [...]
The Sharks made a big step towards their rebuild by trading Brent Burns to Carolina for Steven Lorentz, Eetu Makiniemi, and a conditional 3rd round pick in 2023. It will be interesting what they do with Logan Couture, Timo Meier, Tomas Hertl and Erik Karlsson going forward. GM and Coach Mike Grier is the new [...]
The Salary Cap League Rankings are here! All of the top 200 skaters. **** With the draft wrapped-up and free agency past the frenzy portion, there’s lots of dust to settle out. We have new faces, old faces in new places, and all sorts of new contracts to face. Got it? Only a couple of [...]
