Ramblings: Pinto Suspended; Updates on Spurgeon, Boldy, Barabanov, and Bennett; Vrana Scratched – October 27
The big news from Thursday was that Ottawa forward Shane Pinto will be suspended for half the regular season – 41 games – for a violation related to gambling but unrelated to gambling on the [...]
Analytics Advantage: Takeaways/Giveaways, Shot Attempts/Points Per Game, and Player Involvement
Welcome back. I hope everyone had an amazing experience watching frozen frenzy; it’s good to see ESPN capitalizing on the uber-popular NFL Redzone. As the NHL season gains momentum, so should your fantasy strategies. This [...]
Capped: Surprising Starts for Vatrano, Chabot, and Hartman
Hello and welcome back my Salary Cap-friendlies! By now we’re at the very early part of the season where you’re probably scrolling up and down your roster looking at each player and pondering whether they [...]
Ramblings: New Role for Roslovic; Starts for Hughes, Sanheim, Hedman, Moore, and Others – October 26
It was a successful first effort for the NHL with its Frozen Frenzy on Tuesday night. Despite some hiccups in Columbus, or with a couple production issues, it seemed to have gone off without a [...]
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Fantasy Take: Marchment Moves to Dallas
The Dallas Stars have signed forward Mason Marchment to a four-year contract with a $4.5 million AAV. Marchment is capitalizing on a surprising breakout season, scoring 47 points in 54 games (0.87 PTS/GP). He also [...]
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 [...]