Fantasy Impact: The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed Valtteri Filppula to a five-year $25M contract.
The Lightning get: A guy who can be a solid second line centre and fill a need with the buyout of Vincent Lecavalier. Filppula had 66 points in his last full season and is steady defensively as well.
Fantasy Players Impacted: This isn't going to hurt Detroit's forward group too much since they signed Stephen Weiss earlier today, who can step in for Filppula. He should fit right in with their forward group.
This actually may hurt Filppula's value though pretty significantly. He goes from playing with Johan Franzen, Henrik Zetterberg, and company, to probably lining up alongside Teddy Purcell and Ryan Malone in Tampa. Filppula's skill set should benefit Malone and Purcell from an offensive standpoint, and make that line much more reliable defensively.
However, it could benefit Filppula in one of these two scenarios. If he does see time on the top line in-between Martin St. Louis and Steven Stamkos, then his value goes up drastically, or if he gets rookie Jonathan Drouin on his wing for any lengthy amount of time in 2013-14.
Fantasy Players this helps, in order:
1.Purcell
2.Malone
Fantasy Players this hurts, in order:
1.Filppula (depending on where he plays)
2.Dan Cleary (if he re-signs in Detroit)
3.Franzen
Related Posts
UPCOMING GAMES
| Apr 01 - 19:04 |
 CBJ
| vs |
 NSH | |
| Apr 01 - 19:04 |
 MTL
| vs |
 FLA | |
| Apr 01 - 19:04 |
 OTT
| vs |
 BUF | |
| Apr 01 - 19:04 |
 BOS
| vs |
 WSH | |
| Apr 01 - 19:04 |
 NYI
| vs |
 T.B | |
| Apr 01 - 20:04 |
 STL
| vs |
 DET | |
| Apr 01 - 21:04 |
 UTA
| vs |
 CGY | |
| Apr 01 - 22:04 |
 ANA
| vs |
 S.J | |
| Apr 01 - 22:04 |
 VGK
| vs |
 EDM | |
| Apr 01 - 22:04 |
 L.A
| vs |
 WPG
| |
Starting Goalies
Top Skater Views
| Players | Team | |
|---|---|---|
| LANE HUTSON |
MTL | |
| SAM RINZEL |
 CHI | |
| TAYLOR MAKAR |
 COL | |
| DYLAN COZENS |
OTT | |
| LEO CARLSSON |
ANA
| |
Top Goalie Profile Views
DAL
PHI
SEA
LINE COMBOS
| Frequency |
OTT Players
| |
|---|---|---|
| 22.1 | FABIAN ZETTERLUND TIM STUTZLE CLAUDE GIROUX | |
| 20.8 | DAVID PERRON DYLAN COZENS DRAKE BATHERSON | |
| 19.2 | BRADY TKACHUK SHANE PINTO RIDLY GREIG | |
DobberHockey Podcasts
Keeping Karlsson: Kiefer Madness
Elan and Brian are all-in for fantasy hockey’s championship weeks, re-considering our interest in Philadelphia Flyers, gazing in awe at Vegas’s power play and its quarterback, seeking value on a St. Louis Blues team that appeared DOA months ago, and lauding some of the names that made or broke, or will make or break, fantasy hockey championship dreams.
Fantasy Hockey Life: Cat Silverman on Goalies
Cat Silverman from InGoal Magazine returns to break down prospect goalies you asked about. Victor asks her about Jesper Wallstedt, Drew Commesso, Artur Ahktaymov, Ilya Nabokov, Sergei Murashov, Mikhail Yegorov, Ivan Fedotov, Aleksei Kolosov, Brandon Bussi, Marcus Gidlof, and more. Have a listen! Our show is part of the Dobber Podcast Network and sponsored by […]
Keeping Karlsson: Matchup Maximizer Week 24
Ryan Downey looks at the schedule for the upcoming week of NHL action and recommends some players with good schedules that you should consider streaming in to win your head to head matchups.
Keeping Karlsson Short Shifts – Very Short Shift
Jeremy and Shams are here to go through all the injury news in the league with the nearing end of the fantasy playoffs in mind. They close the show with surprising hot streaks and two players you should likely be cutting from your playoff teams.
Fantasy Hockey Life: Scouts Tout
Scout’s Tout returns with breakdowns of Will Zellers, Collin Graf, Artyom Levshunov, Max Plante, Roman Kantserov, Zayne Parekh, and Carter Yakemchuk. Thanks to the FHL Scouts who contributed to this episode: Tony, Jeremy, Grant, Craig, and Patrick. Polls from NHL Rank King Mason Black. Have a listen! Our show is part of the Dobber Podcast […]