Brad Marchand did not travel with the Bruins on their two-game road trip. At the earliest he’ll be back on Saturday for the back half of their home-and-home against the Leafs. In the mean time, you’ve got Anders Bjork in Marchand’s spot on the top line, but you also have Jake DeBrusk skating Marchand’s PP [...]
Updates on Price, Getzlaf, Drouin, and more… […]
Two forwards off to a hot start on their team's top lines are featured in this week's Cage Match […]
Ducks’ and Habs’ Injury Woes, Hot Blues’ Line, plus more… […]
In this week’s installment, we get fancy with a few fancy stats. While some of you might be well versed in the math behind hockey, we’re going to keep it relatively simple for my simple mind. We show PDO some PDA, but instead of diving too deep into the numbers, we’ll just consider a [...]
Each season, there are a number of players who have fantastic starts and then fade. Others get off to slow starts and then go on the offensive. Many of the players we’ll look at this week started slowly, but appear to be turning the tide. Lars Eller A model of underwhelming consistency, Eller [...]
Early goalie panic never ceases to entertain. 10 starts into the season Devan Dubnyk has been less than stellar with a 0.907 save percentage after getting chased last night. He has just four quality starts in those 10 appearances, which is a less than stellar ratio but it’s still such a small sample size. It’s [...]
As NHL teams hit about the 15-game mark in the campaign, we start to see what we might have hoped to be some players’ short lulls turn into more serious patterns of below-expectation play, or initial hot streaks look a bit more enduring. We’ve now gained enough of a sample size to start evaluating a [...]
We’re a month into the season, but don’t worry if your team is not doing too well. There’s plenty of season left and plenty of players on the waiver wire that can help. In my 12-team Yahoo roto league we dress four centres, four left wingers, four right wingers, six defensemen, two goalies and five [...]
The best laid plans for an episode that was supposed to begin with Elan and Brian offering their latest Carey Price conspiracy theories were turned upside down with breaking news of the Duchene-Turris trade coming minutes before showtime. But not to worry, as the guys serve up their piping hot fantasy insight and analysis on that and all the week's [...]
