When it comes to drafting goalies in a simple one-year fantasy league, ranking your top goalies of choice is a routine tradition. It’s fairly easy to slot guys like Roberto Luongo, Marc-Andre Fleury and Martin Brodeur high on your pre-rankings. But with all of the unproven and relatively unknown “starters” this season, what direction do you take for the second and third goalie on your team?
Assuming today's physical went okay, Alex Tanguay has signed a one-year contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning for $2.5 million.
Fantasy Guide available here. The 'Canes have cut their losses regarding prospect Bobby Hughes, ranked 181 on my prospects list. The shipped the 21-year-old to the Islanders for undrafted 26-year-old Rob Hennigar. Hennigar will shore up Albany, while Hughes is young enough to get new life in Bridgeport. TSN is reporting that Patrick [...]
Poolies are always trying to find that edge. We’re always looking for that new angle to look at statistics and twist them to our liking. We can make a player who had 15 points in 46 games look like a gem by drilling down into his ice time and pulling out his points per minute played. Or if that doesn’t work, how about his points per shift? Or his points per second of power-play time? Or his points on so-and-so’s line versus off of it? So many ways to look at it and if you find the right one, you can ‘prove’ that your guy is a future stud. Encouraging this dream world, DobberHockey now has the Frozen Pool section, where you can manipulate stats to your heart’s desire. Start analyzing and you become lost, as I was with my latest findings.
Fantasy Guide can be found here. Minnesota hockey writer Michael Russo and Edmonton hockey writer Jim Matheson are both very clear in the fact that Mike Comrie will not sign with their city. Comrie's agent is very certain that he will sign within two weeks, but I think we can be safe assuming it [...]
You can support this free website and buy the famous DobberHockey Fantasy Guide here. RDS is reporting that Tampa Bay has signed Alex Tanguay to a one-year deal, details to be announced next week. Worst kept secret in hockey. $2.6 million - man he should have fired his agent on July 2nd. Vancouver [...]
San Jose announced that the team has acquired center Patrick White and defenseman Daniel Rahimi from the Vancouver Canucks in exchange for defensemen Christian Ehrhoff and Brad Lukowich.
Fantasy Guide here. James Mirtle is tweeting that Matt Lashoff has signed a two-year deal with the bolts today. No word on one-way, or two-way. I am also hearing that prospect Radek Smolenak has been waived by his KHL team. That is from Erik Erlendsson of the Tribune Shocking news - the Leafs [...]
This week I am going to look into the players that had the strongest finishes to the 2008-09 season, putting the most emphasis on guys who showed the most improvement in the final 20 games of last season.
Fantasy Guide can be found here. HUGE announcement from Jason Arbuthnot in our Frozen Pool section (just click "Fantasy Tools" in the Nav on the left or in the tab up top). He has put together FANTASY MANAGER tool in which you enter in the roster of your team and it immediately spits out [...]
