Lining Up: Important Lineup Notes for the First Week Including DeAngelo, Chabot, Howden, and Donato
Welcome back to another edition of Lining Up and Happy-Start-Of-Hockey Day! With the NHL kicking the season off tonight, today will focus on teams updating the notes from last two Lining Up articles for teams [...]
15 Fearless Forecasts for the 2023-24 NHL Season
I don’t normally dwell on how my prior season’s Fearless Forecasts fared, admittedly because usually far fewer actually pan out versus those that don’t. But as can be seen from my May recap column, I [...]
Ramblings: Extensions for Dahlin, Scheifele, and Hellebuyck; Roster Cuts; 10 Reasonable Fantasy Takes for the 2023-24 Season – October 10
The NHL regular season starts today and thank you to everyone who has been reading through the offseason/training camp. Some days can turn into slogs but we’ve had a lot of positive feedback from both [...]
Wild West: Western Conference Only – Top Rookies by Team
This year, because it is such a deep crop of rookies, I’m going to list the top rookies by team in the Western Conference. Some of these players could start the year in the minors [...]
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Fantasy Take: Columbus the Surprise Winner of Johnny Hockey
The Columbus Blue Jackets have signed winger Johnny Gaudreau to a seven-year contract with an AAV of $9.75 million. Whoa. Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Long Island were believed to be Gaudreau’s preferred destinations after he [...]
Fantasy Take: Vegas Dumps Pacioretty, Carolina Offers Him A Rose
The biggest shocker of Free Agent Frenzy had nothing to do with free agents, or at least not directly. It was the trade of Max Pacioretty and Dylan Coghlan to Carolina in exchange for future [...]
Fantasy Impact: Seattle Signs Burakovsky and Poturalski
Seattle finally gets Kraken on free agency season, adding winger Andre Burakovsky for five years at $5.5M AAV, as well as Andrew Poturalski for two seasons. The team also announced that they signed their top [...]
Fantasy Take: Red Wings Sign Kubalik
The Red Wings brought in another free agent, adding Dominik Kubalik who was strangely not tendered as an RFA in Chicago. He received a two-year contract worth $2.5 million per season. What the Red Wings [...]
Fantasy Take: Detroit Adds David Perron to Scoring Mix
Detroit continued a very busy day of signings as they got their second-line centre in Andrew Copp, bolstered the back-end by adding Ben Chiarot and Olli Maatta, and then went and got some winger help [...]
Fantasy Take: Vatrano Lands with the Ducks
The Ducks have been fairly quiet through free agency, but their one notable move has been to bring in Frank Vatrano on a three-year deal worth $3.65M per season. Here was my initial thought on [...]