Fantasy Take: Colin Miller off to Buffalo
The Vegas Golden Knights were another team facing a cap crunch and needing to ship out a contract or two. That feels amazing to say after two years in the league but here we are. Anyway, they traded Miller to Buffalo for a second-round pick in 2021 and a third-round pick in 2022. Miller [...]
Fantasy Take: Burakovsky sent to Colorado
The Washington Capitals qualified Andre Burakovsky, meaning he was due $3.25M this year. The team was tight against the cap with some signings to make so a move seemed likely. That move came on Friday afternoon as he was traded to Colorado in exchange for a second- and third-round pick in 2020 and minor [...]
Frozen Tools Forensics: Bounce back candidates, part 1
Some players are prime candidates to bounce back from sub-par years or injury-plagued campaigns. The value of these players could be at a low point, so it could be a good time to take a chance on them improving next season. I’m not convinced that all of these players we will list in the [...]
Ramblings: Marleau bought out; Guhle update; Fedun signs; Girard; Grzelcyk – June 28
It had been kind of expected since the trade but the Carolina Hurricanes have officially bought out Patrick Marleau. He had been acquired from the Leafs in a salary dump and the expectation was that this would happen. Marleau is now free to sign anywhere on July 1st but it’s likely going to be [...]
Fantasy Take: Haula acquired by the Hurricanes
Late on Wednesday night, or early Thursday morning depending on location, Carolina took advantage of their cap space and acquired centre Erik Haula from the Carolina Hurricanes in exchange for prospect Nicolas Roy and a conditional fifth-round pick in 2021. The conditions can be found here. Haula missed most of 2018-19 with a gruesome [...]
Capped: Evaluating trades from the last week
There weren’t any “hockey trades” during this year’s NHL draft weekend. Every trade was either focused around pure draft pick swaps, or salary cap dumps. The draft pick swaps happen every year, but the cap dumps were much bigger and bolder than we have seen in years past. There were three main deals that [...]
Keeping Karlsson – Draft talk with Cam Robinson
No fancy title for this episode as the name dropped should be all you need to get excited to listen. Elan is joined by Cam Robinson from Dobber Prospects,Dobber Hockey, the Prospects Central podcast and so much more to discuss his thoughts on all the big name players taken in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft We squeezed a lot of [...]
Ramblings: Luongo retires; Update on Timmins, Tarasenko, Cole; Entry stats – June 27
One of the storylines for the summer was what Florida goalie Roberto Luongo would do. Try to rehab and play at least one more year? Go on LTIR if the issue persisted? Retire? Well, in an announcement that could only be made in the vein of Roberto Luongo’s personality, we got our answer: [...]
Fantasy Hockey Mailbag: Trading for McDavid, Setting Keepers, Strome vs Steel, & Binnington
It feels like it hasn’t already been a month, but sure enough, it’s mailbag time again when I get the privilege of answering your fantasy hockey questions. As always, the goals in doing so are for me to give thorough responses to questions while at the same time making sure to address them in [...]