Sticks And Salvos
David CastilloHockey thoughts, reactions, and outbursts.
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The meandering take: Offer sheets, trade rumors, ridiculous contracts, and more general thoughts on the 2026 offseason
The 2026 offseason will be the kind of year that’s seen as an inflection point. Either it’s a sign of things to come, and how hockey does business in the future, or an aggro rejoinder to how hockey will do business in the future. Either the...
For my money: The Utah Mammoth are the most interesting team in the universe. Is that a good or bad thing?
I always had a soft spot for Arizona. Call it a cliche, but I love my small-market teams. That makes them underdogs in their own way, even if the owners are anything but that. Nonetheless, it sucked seeing the team move to Utah. But to Utah...
2026 NHL Free Agency winners, losers, and in-betweeners: The price of the brick going up edition
I needed to talk purely about the San Jose Sharks on their own. In addition to everything that’s been said, I think this offseason, beyond going completely off the rails, is also in a major wait-and-see holding pattern.
Yea some money was...
Hottakeification: Hear me out. The San Jose Sharks did fine, actually.
No sport comes close to the NHL when it comes to the gap between the perceived value of its’ players and their actual value. Allow me to demonstrate. Jacob Trouba, 32 years old and well past his prime, now makes $8.25M in AAV. That is more...
The casual critic's guide to the 2026 NHL Draft: What's the first overall really worth, names to know, names that will fall but shouldn't, and rumors!
Last year’s draft list was exhausting. So naturally, I decided if I were to do that again, I needed to be more organized. And so naturally, I didn’t. My bad!
Instead of going through my own personal rankings, we’re going to talk about all...
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