Carolina placed a couple of interesting names on the real-life waiver wire on Thursday. As predicted, Scott Darling, his terrible save percentage and equally ugly contract made it’s way through without a hitch. Valentin Zykov did not. The 23-year-old winger was snatched by the Oilers on Friday morning in a move widely celebrated [...]
All fantasy owners need help in the short term AND the long term. The Looking Ahead feature identifies one player to plug into lineups in the short term, a second to invest in for the long term, a third to bench for the coming week, and a fourth who will struggle to meet expectations [...]
In what was the easiest case of couch analysis this year, Dustin Byfuglien has been moved to the injured reserve with a concussion. Anyone who watched the game or saw the replay saw what this was but he was still inexplicably allowed to play hockey. Anyway, we know that concussion timelines are tricky so [...]
**** With the William Nylander saga ending one way or another in two days, alongside recent signings of Jacob Chychrun, Nick Ritchie, and Alex Tuch, it seems like a good time to review the Restricted Free Agents for the coming season. **** First off, I wanted to touch on Ron Hextall’s dismissal [...]
The long-awaited return of Auston Matthews came Wednesday night. He was just waiting to be cleared medically, which he was, and he was in the Toronto lineup for the first time in 17 games. * Kevan Miller took a puck to the throat in the team’s game Monday night. Official word came down Wednesday [...]
Weber and Boeser Return, Kovalchuk Fading Away […]
It’s time to sit down and take a good long look at your fantasy hockey team this week. As Michael Clifford pointed out in last night’s ramblings there will be a lot of talk about buy/sell players and that is exactly what I’m going to load up on this week in the East. Obviously [...]
In this week’s instalment, we take a look at a few hot lines in the NHL. Using Dobber’s Line Production Tool, we compared even-strength point production around the league over the past 10 games. I compiled a list of the highest scoring line for each team at even strength. Here’s the list… # [...]
