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Dallas Stars Daily Links: Should The Stars Trade Steve Ott and Nicklas Grossman?
Before I start your daily trade rumor session, I want to just express my views on one thing. For me, discussing who might be traded or who might be coming here is all fairly meaningless until you put those things together in a workable package. Saying "trade Brenden Morrow" or "trade Stephane...
Sab(re)metrics: Is Thomas Vanek Overpaid?
It has been a long time since I had posted to this site, and I apologize. Since my last posting, our fair Buffalo Sabres have accumulated a 9-18-4 record. Of course, this poses a few questions: Is my lack of posting and the Sabres poor record a coincidence? More than likely. Is all of this my...
What Happened to Parity?
One of the things that was supposed to happen with the arrival of the salary range was an increase in parity. Bad teams couldn't be all that bad because they were forced to spend and good teams couldn't keep all of their best players because success would mean a lot of talent out the door. That's...
Sean Avery Reports To AHL; Dallas Stars To Target Free Agent List?
Sean Avery has officially reported to the Connecticut Whale of the AHL today, and his $1.9 million salary cap hit is taken off the books of the New York Rangers. Unfortunately, this also means that Avery's $1.9 million cap hit for the Dallas Stars is now gone -- something we've been contemplating...
Nostalgia: The Lost Season
Lockout. That is a word being thrown around quite often at the moment. Both the NFL and NBA have locked their players out in a bitter labor dispute between the owners and players as owners try to combat skyrocketing expenses. The players, for obvious reasons, are trying to keep their slice of...
Your NHL Fan Offseason Wishlist Template
Do you love to come up with strange free agency scenarios, but hate getting carpal tunnel from stretching to hit "shift" and "1" at the same time? Have you always wanted to sound like other internet lunatics but never had the same belligerence? Well, Lighthouse Hockey's R&D department knows how...
Bits: And Some Thoughts On The Future
The entry draft is complete and next up on the Islanders agenda is free agency, the arena meetings, continued RFA signings, the referendum and finally, training camp. It will be quite the busy offseason for the Isles this year. Stories on the actual draft and draft party should be ready for early...
Bits: Wheeling, Dealing and Drafting
It's here! IT'S HERE!!!11 Draft day has finally arrived and Islander country is excited! Another piece to the puzzle, tool for the toolbox and hopefully another bit of magic worked by Garth Snow and staff for us to ponder and explore for the next couple of seasons. Many feel the Isles are on...
Report: NHL salary cap to rise by nearly $5M for 2011-12; floor elevated to $48M
...which, if true, means the Florida Panthers will be (as of Monday) $45M under the reported $64M cap, or - more importantly - over $30M below the salary cap floor. What does this mean? For one, the lockout of 2004-05 was an increasingly pointless gesture; the cap max during the season following...
A new way to look at player value
Managing a salary cap in today's NHL isn't simply about making sure you don't go over—apologies to Mr. Lamoriello—but about making sure you get proper value for your cap expenditures. While I am not going to discuss here what is the right and proper cap hit for someone with Deryk...
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