Get your brooms out Bruins’ fans, because the sweep has been completed. By now, most of you have heard the whispers of a magical sweep curse that has been transmitted via the handshake at the end of several series. The Penguins gave it to the Islanders, who passed it on to the Hurricanes. [...]
A little over a year ago I put together some contract predictions for the bigger names up for new contracts. Here we are going to look at a similar set. It appears that there are six main goalies heading for new contracts this summer, and by my count, six spots in which they would [...]
The San Jose Sharks are incapable of having a slow-paced series, or even a slow-paced game. They had leads of 2-0 and 3-1 in Game 3 against St. Louis but the Blues scored three goals in about 14 minutes to take a 4-3 lead. Who else but Couture would tie the game late to [...]
Fantasy Impact: The Buffalo Sabres have found their head coach. After an extended search with all the big name players rumoured, the Sabres went a different direction, hiring international sensation, Ralph Krueger. Krueger, who was Switzerland’s national coach from 1998 to 2010, has just 48 games of experience as a head coach in the NHL. [...]
Welcome to another edition of “Forum Buzz,” a column where I dissect posts from the DobberHockey Forums. Pretty much anything within the forums might be covered, other than trades (those usually will get their own separate write-ups on the site and are also covered in the next day’s Ramblings) and signings (those tend to [...]
Ladies and gentlemen, Tuukka Rask. The Bs netminder has been spectacular this spring and especially against the Hurricanes. He kept that going in game three of the Eastern Conference final on Tuesday evening. Those Bunch of Jerks came home knowing that a series doesn’t truly get going until one squad loses on home ice. [...]
Last week we talked about the value that will likely be had at the draft next season for the center position in the Metro. This week we have a few players that also will present a nice value option, but really there are a few more players that I personally would avoid next season. [...]
It was a very entertaining Game 2 from the get-go as Jaden Schwartz gave St. Louis a 1-0 lead less than three minutes into the game on a nifty play with Vladimir Tarasenko. With the Blues up 2-0 in the second period, Logan Couture scored two goals two minutes apart, one of them short-handed, [...]
For part three of this series we are going to look at defensemen in the West. We will be using the Fantasy Hockey Geek ranking tool to get a ranking that combines all of a player’s stats for the searched categories. For the purposes of this series, the ranks are based on a 12 [...]
One fun thing about looking back on the past season is to see if there are any overall patterns that emerge from season to season that could be a tell of what to expect for next year. Sadly, the answer to that is a big fat no. It seems as if the top stories [...]
