Yohann Auvitu, D Shoots: L Height: 6-0 Weight: 198 Born: 1989-07-27 Hometown: Ivry-Sur-Seine, France Drafted: Undrafted – Signed as a Free Agent with New Jersey Devils Observations: July 2017 - After spending last year with the Devils' organization, most of it at AHL Albany, Edmonton has inked Auvitu to [...]
The head coach can make all the difference from young players trying to make a name for themselves in the NHL. This effect will be amplified more than ever on the vegas Golden Knights, a rag-tag team of players who, for the most part, have never played together before which leaves an enormous amount of [...]
Eeli Tolvanen, the 31st overall pick in the 2017 entry draft by the Nashville Predators, is heading back to Finland after his academic credentials were reportedly found wanting at Boston College. With the expansion draft, entry draft and the free-agency signing deadline behind us, hockey GMs and fantasy pool fanatics alike are now in [...]
After a disaster of a 2016-17 season, wrapped up by losing even the draft lottery, the Colorado Avalanche had a big off-season ahead of them. Step 1 was the NHL Entry draft, which overall was very successful. They had a total of seven picks, and got good value with most of them relative to where they [...]
Free Agency - New Faces in New Places Following up on last episodes talk about unqualified prospects that became free agents, we look at where many of them signed and the fantasy outlook as a result. Players discussed include Cal Petersen, Stepan Falkovsky to LA Kings Joe Morrow to Montreal Teemu Pulkkinen signed in [...]
For the first time since 2014, the Chicago Blackhawks had a first round pick (amongst nine total picks) to make on draft day. They spread those out geographically, choosing two players each from Canada, Finland and the United States while adding one each from Russia, Sweden and the Czech Republic. Overall, they chose five defencemen [...]
2017 Carolina Hurricanes: After making trades for goaltender Scott Darling’s rights, and acquiring Trevor van Riemsdyk from Las Vegas following the Expansion Draft, GM Ron Francis and the Hurricanes still had eight selections entering the 2017 NHL Draft weekend. Many, including myself, did not expect the team to draft eight players, rather anticipating the Canes [...]
2017 Calgary Flames: Due to the acquisitions of Michael Stone and Curtis Lazar, the Flames had five selections in this year's draft. The Flames have created a draft pattern in the last few seasons with regard to how they select in rounds 5-7. They like to grab players who had seemingly fallen potentially since midseason [...]
The Buffalo Sabres came into NHL Draft weekend with seven total selections. When the Vegas Golden Knights had the interest of selecting Linus Ullmark in the Expansion Draft, the Sabres needed to deter them by supplying them with a sixth-round pick and in return Vegas selected Will Carrier instead. Losing Carrier was still somewhat of [...]
Updates from NHL Development Camps of Carolina Hurricanes, LA Kings, Florida Panthers, New York Rangers, Ottawa Senators, and Tampa bay Lightning NHL Development camps are in full swing. Some are already over, some are ongoing, and some are coming up. For a complete list see my previous Ramblings with all 31 teams posted rosters and [...]
