Ramblings: Bedard’s Debut; Notes on Korchinski, Paul, Parssinen, and Other Opening-Day Tidbits (Oct 11)
My favourite bit of news to kick off yesterday was the record that Sidney Crosby, Kris Letang, and Evgeni Malkin were breaking: https://twitter.com/TaylorHaasePGH/status/1711604049848541426 Bryan Rust opened the scoring for the Penguins for the third season [...]
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 [...]
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Fantasy Take: Colin White Heading To Florida
Colin White was bought out this offseason by the Ottawa Senators, with a large reason being his age. As he is under 26 years old, they can save a lot of money against having to [...]
Fantasy Impact: Chicago Signs Domi, Athanasiou, Blackwell and Stalock
The Chicago Blackhawks have handed one-year contracts to forwards Max Domi, Andreas Athanasiou ($3M each) and goaltender Alex Stalock ($750,000). And a two-year deal at $1.2M AAV for winger Colin Blackwell. The Blackhawks get: boom-or-bust, [...]
Fantasy Take: Capitals Lock-Up Their Goalies with Kuemper and Lindgren
Washington capitalized on their opportunity to reset in net this offseason, and after parting ways with both Vitek Vanecek and Ilya Samsonov, they have landed the big free agency fish in Darcy Kuemper, and will [...]
Fantasy Take: Hurricanes Land Burns
The Hurricanes let Dougie Hamilton walk because they didn’t want to pay him until he was 37, and they traded Tony DeAngelo because they don’t want to pay him $5 million, so of course they [...]
Fantasy Take: Buffalo Brings In Goalie Eric Comrie
One of the more intriguing goaltending options in an offseason where it seems musical chairs was the name of the game was Eric Comrie. Originally drafted by Winnipeg, he spent parts of eight seasons in [...]
Fantasy Impact: Vancouver Signs Mikheyev and Lazar
The Vancouver Canucks have signed underrated winger Ilya Mikheyev to a four-year deal worth $4.75M AAV and versatile forward Curtis Lazar to a three-year deal worth $1M AAV. The Canucks have also signed goaltender Collin [...]