Ramblings: Draft Day, Trades and More Trades, Organize the Kraken! (July 24)

By |2021-07-24T00:38:51-04:00July 24th, 2021|Hockey Rambling|

The Buffalo Sabres did the expected on Friday, selecting defenseman Owen Power with the first overall pick. For more on Power, you can view his Dobber Prospects profile. Fellow Michigan alum Matthew Beniers was the second overall pick and first-ever entry draft pick in Seattle Kraken history. Check out his Dobber Prospects profile. Mason McTavish [...]

Fantasy Take: Seth Jones, Adam Boqvist Traded in Blockbuster Deal

By |2021-07-23T20:17:09-04:00July 23rd, 2021|Fantasy Take - Latest NHL Moves|

The rumours had been swirling basically all year that Seth Jones would be traded and that happened about an hour before the 2021 NHL Entry Draft. As had been rumoured, the Chicago Blackhawks have acquired the 26-year-old blue liner and subsequently extended him for seven years. It really took me a minute to get my [...]

Fantasy Take: Canucks Acquire Garland, OEL for Picks and Bad Contracts

By |2021-07-23T21:43:02-04:00July 23rd, 2021|Fantasy Take - Latest NHL Moves|

In a trade that looks more like something you’d see in a dynasty fantasy league than between two NHL teams, the Vancouver Canucks have acquired Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Conor Garland from the Arizona Coyotes for Jay Beagle, Loui Eriksson, Antoine Roussel, the ninth overall pick in the 2021 NHL Draft (Dylan Guenther), a second-rounder next [...]

Fantasy Take: Ristolainen, Somehow, Traded to Philadelphia

By |2021-07-23T14:31:49-04:00July 23rd, 2021|Fantasy Take - Latest NHL Moves|

Following the trade of Shayne Gostisbehere, it seemed as if Philadelphia was clearing cap space to make another splash on the back-end. This offseason is moving so fast that it’s easy to forget that they’ve already picked up Ryan Ellis from Nashville. Well, they did indeed add another defenceman, and it came way out of [...]

Frozen Tools Forensics: Looking Back to Vegas’s First Year to Look Forward to Seattle’s

By |2021-07-23T09:37:39-04:00July 23rd, 2021|Frozen Tools Forensics|

With Seattle on the brain, we turn to expansion teams. This will be a bit less about Seattle’s current draft list (which is likely to change before opening night) and more about doing a little expectation setting. We will start by digging into our last example of an expansion team entering into the league and [...]

Fantasy Take: Gostisbehere Shipped to Arizona

By |2021-07-22T14:14:52-04:00July 22nd, 2021|Fantasy Take - Latest NHL Moves|

“The desert around their walls is called the Garden of Bones. Every time the Qartheen shut their gates, the garden grows.” I thought of that quote from the second season of the Game of Thrones when I found out that Shayne Gostisbehere had been traded to Arizona. Here are the particulars: https://twitter.com/CraigSMorgan/status/1418265130433798150 The Flyers paid [...]

Fantasy Take: Nedeljkovic Traded to Hockey Town

By |2021-07-22T13:49:11-04:00July 22nd, 2021|Fantasy Take - Latest NHL Moves|

There are always some trades that come out of left field and take the hockey world by surprise. This trade would certainly qualify, as Alex Nedeljkovic, the goalie who looked like the future in Carolina, was shipped off to Detroit. The return was as follows: https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/1418261341928935427 My initial reaction was just shock. Nedeljkovic is a [...]

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