The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed goalie Petr Mrazek to a three-year deal at $3.8M per. The Leafs Get: a goaltender who has often teased with his tremendous potential, but it seems that every time he starts getting any momentum he gets injured. His track record: 2021 – 6 games (LBI) 2021 – 31 games [...]
The Fantasy Guide is out August 14, which is a very fast turnaround (fastest ever). Since I can’t project anything until tomorrow after the free agent craziness starts dying down and rosters begin to take shape. All I could do in advance was study and analyze last season. Pounding at this to make sure it [...]
The Tampa Bay Lightning have traded Tyler Johnson and a 2023 second-round pick to the Chicago Blackhawks for Brent Seabrook. This is yet another trade being made for purely (or at least mostly) salary cap reasons. The Lightning finally find a way to part with Johnson’s contract (three more years at $5 million), while the [...]
Winnipeg’s blue line overhaul continues. It is a necessary overhaul because it was the glaring weakness of the team last year, and really has been ever since the retirement of Dustin Byfuglien. They are trying to piece it back together and managed to retain Dylan DeMelo through the Expansion Draft. Winnipeg went out and got [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll look at the fantasy value of a few players that were recently traded. In particular, we’ll focus on Rasmus Ristolainen, Nick Leddy and Alex Nedeljkovic. Rasmus Ristolainen The Flyers paid a high price to acquire Ristolainen, giving Buffalo a first-round pick in 2021, second-round pick in 2023 and defenseman [...]
If this trade is going to be a harbinger of things to come, we are going to be in for a wild, wild offseason. Not that long ago, Alex Nedeljkovic – the goalie who looked the future in net for Carolina and was a finalist for Rooke of the Year – was traded to Detroit [...]
Well, what a week last week was. We saw blockbuster trades, an expansion draft, and the entry draft all squeezed into a span of 3-4 days. I would not blame anyone for having missed a deal or a trade here and there, so I’ll link all our stuff quickly. All our Ramblings are archived here [...]
Free agency begins on Wednesday, July 28 at noon ET (9 PT). Taylor Hall is now removed from lists as he signed a fairly reasonable four-year deal with Boston for $6 million AAV. Here is a look at who I consider the top unrestricted free agents on the market still. All salary cap projections are [...]
We are only a couple of days away from what may be one of the quietest days in free agency history. With NHL teams not seeing an increase in cap space, many squads may choose not to stay quiet on the opening day of free agency on Wednesday, July 28. Instead, teams may have to [...]
Here are the top 62 goalies to own in your salary cap league – July 26th, 2021 edition. We’re in the middle of a wild offseason, and right before the free agency storm we bring you the salary cap goalie rankings for July! This ranking system is still younger than the skater version, so it’s [...]
