The Colorado Avalanche have acquired goalie Devan Dubnyk from the San Jose Sharks for defenseman Greg Pateryn and a fifth-round pick in 2021. Even with Jonas Johansson’s 28-save shutout on Friday, the Avalanche weren’t sold on him or their other backup goaltending options after Philipp Grubauer. Johansson has only 17 games of NHL experience and [...]
Welcome back to The Journey. In last week’s edition, I covered a list of newly inked NCAA players, three of which have made their professional debuts since. Here is a quick update: David Farrance was the lone player to take part in his first National Hockey League game, skating 13:46 with the Nashville Predators. The [...]
The slate we have tonight is a unique one. It has been several Saturdays since I’ve really harped on ownership being a key factor, but it will certainly come into play tonight. There are three glaringly obvious spots on this slate and I’d expect all of them to be heavily owned. I will run through [...]
The Devils have placed Nikita Gusev on unconditional waivers for his contract to be terminated. He will be free to sign with any team once he clears on Saturday. Gusev has been a healthy scratch multiple times, so leaving the Devils appears to be a huge break as far as his fantasy value goes. On [...]
All fantasy owners need help in the short term AND the long term. The Looking Ahead feature identifies one player to plug into lineups in the short term, a second to invest in for the long term, a third to bench for the coming week, and a fourth who will struggle to meet expectations for [...]
This week we are going to take a bit of a long and meandering trip. I write this intro after I went down this rabbit hole, and it all starts with the tools available on Frozen Tools. I added some links along the way so that folks can follow along and find the various reports/charts [...]
If it wasn’t the COVID pause that has really stalled out their season, it could be the injuries that have started to pile up for the Stars that may have done them in. There is hope on the horizon for some of their key players, though: https://twitter.com/MDeFranks/status/1380196868240642049 That these guys are skating is a good [...]
The Florida Panthers have started shedding some salary, and it’s begun with Brett Connolly. The former 20-goal scorer had fallen out of favour with the Panthers and was infrequently in the lineup. He has been dealt to Chicago in a significant deal, at least in the number of pieces. It breaks down as follows: To [...]
As I looked at what to write for this week, I realized the list of Restricted Free Agents this year is really long. I figured it worth while to spend this week going over the omitted. Let’s skip the preamble and dive right in: Kirill Kaprizov, Minnesota Wild ($925K, Age 23) The great thing about [...]
Rick Bowness was cleared to return to the team following a false-positive COVID test. This seemed like a likely case of a false positive as it became public that he and some members of the team had already been vaccinated, but it’s always good to get clarity in these situations. Good for Bowness. * Mike [...]
