Posts About "Eric Fehr"
Maple Leafs’ Recent Dealings With the Sharks
December 10th, 2018 While they reside in different conferences and rarely compete for two points, the Toronto Maple Leafs and San Jose Sharks have met at the trade table a number of times over the past number of seasons. Some of the moves were simple, involving picks and players, others included some household names that would stick with their respective...
5 Original Jets 2.0 Players: Where Are They Now?
September 15th, 2018 The Winnipeg Jets are a long way from where they began when the NHL returned to Manitoba's capital in 2011. The team has slowly built to become what appears to be the perennial contender for which Jets fans and management have hoped for the past seven years, but those that came before cannot be forgotten. Back in March, The Hockey...
Changes and Updates in Sharks Territory
July 6th, 2018 The big news of the past week in San Jose Sharks territory is about what didn’t happen. John Tavares didn’t select San Jose as his new hockey home and so the search for a new top center will continue along a different path, perhaps at a different time. But there are recent changes worth discussing. Three New Deals Three key Sharks...
Wild Sign Fehr, Hendricks & More
July 1st, 2018 The Minnesota Wild have agreed to terms on a one-year contract with veteran forward Eric Fehr. The contract is valued at $1 million. Fehr is a first round (18th overall) draft selection of the Washington Capitals during the 2003 NHL draft. He will turn 33 years old in September of this year, shortly before the 2018-19 NHL season...
Sharks Are Not Missing What They’re Missing
March 25th, 2018 Last season, one San Jose Sharks player led the team in goals, points and plus-minus. Another player led the team in assists. And a third player was the third-leading goal scorer. The players are, respectively, Brent Burns, Joe Thornton and Patrick Marleau. Last season’s Norris Trophy winner, Burns, is tied for ninth on the team...
San Jose Sharks Add Eric Fehr
February 24th, 2018 In a modest move, the San Jose Sharks acquired veteran forward Eric Fehr for a seventh-round draft pick in 2020. It is a modest move, and one I like. The move is not risk-free, but the upside exceeds the risk by a bunch. Eric Fehr Fehr’s history is pretty straightforward. He has played on good NHL teams throughout his career. The...
Maple Leafs Round Table: 4th Line Center and Camp Surprises
October 15th, 2017 The Toronto Maple Leafs are almost through their first couple weeks of the 2017-18 season and The Hockey Writers’ round table is back at it. With an impressive 3-1-0 start to the season, there are a lot of discussion topics that we would like to get to, but for this edition of the round table, I’m joined by Anthony Fusco, Brett...
4 Maple Leafs Vegas Fans Should Know
June 3rd, 2017 The Toronto Maple Leafs are one of the most exciting young teams in the NHL. This season they reached the playoffs for just the second time in a decade and gave the top-seeded Washington Capitals all they could handle in a first-round thriller. The Maple Leafs bowed out after six games, but anyone who watched that series with the Caps...
Preview: Philadelphia Looking to Fly Past Maple Leafs
March 9th, 2017 Another game in Toronto and another matchup with playoff implications when the Toronto Maple Leafs host the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday. The Leafs will be looking to make it two wins in a row when the Flyers come into town after a big 3-2 victory of the Red Wings on Tuesday. Another must-win for the Leafs, they will have to get a...
Will Penguins Regret Dumping Fehr?
March 4th, 2017 It's hard to argue with Jim Rutherford's recent track record as Pittsburgh Penguins general manager. He transformed the Penguins on the fly last season into Stanley Cup champions. For his efforts, Rutherford won the General Manager of the Year Award in 2016. That team is mostly back, but Pittsburgh needed defensive depth this spring....
Maple Leafs News: Trade Deadline Recap & Auston Matthews
March 3rd, 2017 For most teams in the NHL, there are 20 games remaining in the 2016-17 season. The Toronto Maple Leafs are one of the clubs who are in the fight for their playoff lives. They are desperately trying their hardest to accumulate as many points as they possibly can while hoping for the teams around them in the standings to lose. The...
Expansion Draft vs. Trade Deadline
March 2nd, 2017 This season the trade deadline carried more implications due to the incoming Vegas Golden Knights and the 2017 Expansion Draft. The expansion draft added more depth to the trade deadline this season and expanded the significance, since acquiring and trading players may change the dynamic of management’s intentions of who to protect and...
Leafs' Deadline Adds Playoff Experience
March 2nd, 2017 There is something different about playoff hockey in the NHL. Playoff games bring out a special kind of excitement in fans and another level of play in the players. The games are grittier and tend to get nasty after the first few games. The referees let them play and players get away with things that would normally be a penalty during...
