Announcement about Dobber Nation here. Brandon Dubinsky has 17 points in his last 15 games and four two-point games in the last nine. Since his last healthy scratch, JM Liles has seven points in six games. Now THAT is coming back on a mission. In those same six games, Kyle Quincey has [...]
This is my second year as a part of the Industry Experts League, and once again I find myself in the thick of things as the season progresses. I had been meaning to get this update out sooner, but other articles took priority! The best of the best in the fantasy hockey world are here, from NHL.com to Yahoo! to TSN (among others).
With roughly 32 games left for each team in the remainder of this fantasy season, now is really the time that starts separating contending teams from the pretending teams. This week we’ll take a look through the Western Conference to review what’s been going since the calendar rolled over to 2010.
From the Tennessean: Trotz has said that putting Jerred Smithson on David Legwand’s line always seems to spark Legwand. So now that Smithson has a game under his belt, it would be no surprise to see him back on the Legwand line soon. Legwand has zero goals, two assists and a minus-4 rating over his [...]
Somebody was eager to get back. Daniel Alfredsson has peeled off back-to-back three-point games in a row. And he's taking Mike Fisher along with him. Fisher has five points in those games. Matt Moulson has six points in seven games, despite not playing with John Tavares at all. The team currently has Josh Bailey [...]
Chris Boyle is back with his monthly roto rankings. But for the second month in a row, the smart-ass remarks will have to wait as Boyle was busy sunning himself in the Caribbean, sipping on some wobbly pops. So you'll have to wait until February for the hilarity of his fine wit to resume.
Over the last week, the NHL was laden with situations where new faces created tighter spaces in the crease. And for scouts everywhere, it provided us with plenty of entertainment. I mean, what other choice did Dan Bylsma really have after John Curry allowed five goals on 14 shots against Vancouver on Saturday? He simply had to put in the 19-year-old Alex Pechursky, who was signed on an emergency basis. But for so many good reasons, it was the right choice.
Tom Reed is reporting on Twitter that Garon left the CBJ practice after getting hit off the wrist by a shot. In case there was any doubt - the Caputi experiment is over. For now, that is. He has been sent down to WBS. He'll be a full-timer in the top six within 18 [...]
There are very few player-for-player transactions in the NHL these days, thanks in large part to the salary cap. Players are hard – if not impossible – to evaluate on strictly a skill basis, as their attached salary figure usually dictates true value. Last month, Montreal and Minnesota swapped maligned offensive players. Guilliame Latendresse, who was having trouble breaking out of the bottom six in Montreal, was sent packing to Minnesota. In exchange, the Wild traded away Benoit Pouliot; a player picked only three spots after Sidney Crosby in 2005. Almost immediately both players started to pay dividends for their new teams. Latendresse went from playing 11 minutes per night with Montreal to over 16 with the Wild. And instead of skating with Maxim Lapierre, he is lining up with Marty Havlat. Are there other players in the league right now who have the same potential to break out if traded? Why yes, there are!
Chris Boyle is sunning it up in the Carribbean, but informs me that we will get his Top 100 roto players of the past month within a couple of days. What dedication! Another example of how freakishly obsessed we are with fantasy hockey on this site. Alex Steen continues to be leaned on for [...]
