The Los Angeles Kings have acquired forward Tanner Jeannot from the Tampa Bay Lightning for the 118th overall pick in this year’s draft (Jan Golicic) and a 2025 second-round pick. What Los Angeles Receives Jeannot, a banger extraordinaire, who was originally acquired by Tampa Bay from Nashville for five draft picks and Cal Foote. Jeannot [...]
The Utah Hockey Club made a splash on Day 2 of the draft with two separate trades. In the first trade, Utah acquired Mikhail Sergachev from the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for J.J. Moser, Conor Geekie, a 2024 seventh-round pick, and a 2025 second-round pick. In the second trade, Utah acquired John Marino from [...]
Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. **** The first day of the NHL draft has wrapped up, and as the second day is under way, it's time to dive into the action. After Celebrini, there was a lot of [...]
Draft day at the Sphere in Las Vegas was something that the NHL had never seen before. For the last in-person draft, the NHL sure went out with a bang. Other professional leagues should consider this setting if the NHL won’t return there. https://twitter.com/BR_OpenIce/status/1806822212466266145 https://twitter.com/JoePompliano/status/1806833674173714712 https://twitter.com/pharling/status/1806843163405177162 As expected, the Sharks took Macklin Celebrini of Boston [...]
Here are the top 100 goalies to own in your points-only dynasty leagues - June edition! Due to my recent hospital stint, I was unable to post these lists in March, April nor May. So these are long overdue. But first, did you know the 18th annual Fantasy Prospects Report is out now? Pick up [...]
The Washington Capitals continue to improve their NHL roster in an attempt to get Alex Ovechkin to the all-time goals record, this time by acquiring Calgary Flames forward Andrew Mangiapane. Going back to the Flames was a second-round pick, and there was no salary retained so this is a straight swap of player-for-pick: https://twitter.com/reporterchris/status/1806480939872321548 Let’s [...]
Late Wednesday night, Vancouver traded forward Ilya Mikheyev to the Chicago Blackhawks. I broke down Mikheyev’s game and the details of that trade here. * Today is the big day for a lot of people under the Dobber umbrellas as we have Day 1 of the 2024 Entry Draft. For a much more detailed look [...]
Vancouver signed Teddy Blueger earlier on Thursday and then late Thursday night made a trade that helps them clear some cap space. The Canucks sent winger Ilya Mikheyev to the Chicago Blackhawks, along with the rights to Sam Lafferty and a second round pick in 2027 for a fourth round pick in 2027 in return. [...]
Vancouver re-signed forward Teddy Blueger to a two-year contract worth a little under $2M per season. He had a very good year in the bottom-6 of the Canucks with 28 points and 98 hits in 68 games. While he is not overly fantasy relevant, he is a key part of the team’s typically-good penalty kill, [...]
Welcome back to another edition of the Roos Lets Loose monthly mailbag, where I answer your fantasy hockey questions by giving advice that should be useful to all poolies even if they don’t own the specific players being discussed. As a reminder, if you want your fantasy hockey question(s) answered in the next mailbag, check [...]
