I survived another draft weekend! The damage was limited to a gravely voice and a very early bedtime on Monday evening. Not bad for a couple of bumpy prop plane rides, five days of crazy hockey coverage, and a few pops. We’ll dig into a great many things today but I know [...]
In a move to solidify the defence a bit, Colorado traded for Arizona blue liner Kevin Connauton and a third-round pick next year in exchange for centre Carl Soderberg. Soderberg had a career-high with 23 goals in 2018-19. That would be his first 20-goal season of his career and he turns 34 in October. [...]
With the draft behind us, we’ve entered that portion of the season during which free agency takes the spotlight. To celebrate this joyous period, I took a look at a couple of big-name UFAs that might be shedding their Blue Jackets. Follow me on Twitter @BrennanDeSouza and let me know what you’d like me [...]
Blues rookie Robert Thomas underwent left wrist surgery, the team announced. There is no timeline given right now other than he will rehab over the summer and be re-evaluated ahead of training camp. He really showed well over the final couple months of the season and into the playoffs. Hopefully this doesn’t derail his development. * Looking [...]
Fantasy Impact: The Chicago Blackhawks have acquired defenseman Calvin de Haan and prospect winger Aleksi Saarela from the Carolina Hurricanes in exchange for goaltender Anton Forsberg and Gustav Forsling. The Blackhawks get: a very good and dependable veteran defenseman who unfortunately is one of the most injury prone players in the entire league. On [...]
Welcome to week four of our summer series. Like last season, this series is intended to take a look at the teams in the Western Conference one by one. We will do a short recap of what took place, but the deep dive here will be into the players that helped make it so, for [...]
There are all sorts of statistics that can show whether a player should bounce back or regress next season, but one of the simplest, and my personal favourite, is to look at shooting percentage. If a player’s shooting percentage went through the roof for whatever reason, there should be reason to be concerned for [...]
On the newest edition of Keeping Karlsson, Elan and Brian hurriedly gather for an unplanned emergency episode to pick apart all the news-- glorious news!!-- of trades and signings that has gone down in the days approaching and following the NHL draft. Keep an eye out for our Eastern Conference Preview Review with Dimitri Filipovic, which [...]
The Top 100 goaltenders to own in your fantasy hockey keeper league - June edition! I finally did it. I completely re-vamped the formula. It's hard to balance the uselessness of a backup goalie vs. the possiblity that the value will spike if his top guy gets injured vs. a great prospect who is [...]
Ramblings: Dobber’s 10 thoughts on the NHL Draft (June 24) *** What a weekend! Besides the big news that I revamped the Top 100 Keeper League Goalies List (if you don’t see it yet, it’s out later on Monday), there were other things that happened of lesser importance. Such as Jack Hughes and PK Subban [...]
