Micheal Ferland signing in Vancouver meant that Carolina would have a roster spot to fill, be it internally or externally. They decided to go with the external route by signing free agent Ryan Dzingel to a two-year deal with an average annual value just a bit under $3.4M. The 27-year old winger had a [...]
Free agent signings have slowed down, but have continued to trickle in over the past week with a few interesting signings. It’s tough to compete with the NBA and what is happening there right now, but we’ll continue to look at a few more bounce-back candidates below. Some of these players are a little [...]
Here are the Top 200 prospects to own in your points-only keeper leagues - July edition! It's here! The first ranking that includes the 2019 draft picks. As always, players within +/- 5.0 ratings points should be considered equal value and at this point become a matter of team needs and personal bias. [...]
The Habs knocked one RFA off the board by signing winger Joel Armia for two more years with an AAV of $2.6M. Armia is coming off a career year of sorts with a single-season high in goals (13) and ice time per game (15:48). There’s no fantasy relevance here. We can all move along. [...]
After the madness dies down from the first few days of July, there are bargains remaining to be found in the free-agent pile. Last year we saw names such as Patrick Maroon, Tyler Ennis, and Anthony Duclair, among others, signed after the big wave, providing some very valuable production versus their cap hit. This [...]
Here are the Top 200 prospects to own in your points-only keeper leagues - July edition! It's here! The first ranking that includes the 2019 draft picks. As always, players within +/- 5.0 ratings points should be considered equal value and at this point become a matter of team needs and personal bias. o=offensive [...]
A very cool development in the fantasy hockey world. The National Fantasy Hockey Championship, or NFHC, launched on Wednesday. It comes as a sister site for the National Fantasy Baseball Championship (NFBC), National Fantasy Basketball Championship (NFBBC), and the National Fantasy Football Championship (NFFC). In a nutshell, they’re high-stakes fantasy leagues. I’ve taken part [...]
The Vancouver Canucks have signed Micheal Ferland to a four-year contract worth 3.5 million per season. The Canucks Receive: A versatile, hard-hitting winger who can play on either side of the dot. The 27-year-old has played at a 45-point pace in each of the last two seasons - recording a career-high 21 goals in [...]
It’s time for another edition of “Forum Buzz,” a column where I weigh in on some of the most active or heavily debated threads from the past month on the DobberHockey Forums. Pretty much anything within the forums might be covered, other than trades and signings, which usually will get their own separate write-ups [...]
Every so often, the world gets up on their high horse and deems a star athlete garbage. “Psssh that elite talent who has spent his entire life meticulously training to be superior is a fraud. I’ve been eating chippies all these years and could do better than that!” Right about now, the guy [...]
