Capped: Lessons Learned from the Stanley Cup Finalists
Welcome aboard for another Thursday Capped article. We’re two games into the Final now, and before we get any closer to only one team standing, I wanted to take a look into what we can learn from this year’s finalists. There are some similarities and differences between them, but both found ways to win [...]
Ramblings: Cup Final Game 2; Nilsson and Kubalik Signed; More Power Play Ice Time – May 30
Our first overtime game of the Stanley Cup Final went the way of the St. Louis Blues by a score of 3-2 thanks to a point shot from Carl Gunnarsson on a delayed penalty. This was a much different game than the first as St. Louis was the better team on this night and [...]
Fantasy Hockey Mailbag: Wheeler’s Potential Decline, Guentzel’s Future, Roslovic, Barzal, & Kopitar
With the mailbag starting to overflow, that can only mean one thing – it’s time to answer your fantasy hockey questions! As always, the goals in doing so are for me to give thorough answers to the questions while at the same time making sure to address them in a way which also provides [...]
Ramblings: Mitch Marner’s RFA Status, Draft Combine Notes, and Lucic for Eriksson? (May 29)
Another night without hockey. We better get used to this. Fortunately, there remains plenty to talk about. The Mitch Marner contract negotiations jumped to the forefront on Tuesday when Darren Drager was on TSN1050 and said he expects Marner’s camp to take the negotiations beyond July 1st. He also expects Marner to visit [...]
Fantasy Take: Dave Tippett Hired to Coach in Edmonton
It had been rumoured for a few weeks now, but the announcement came down Tuesday morning that there would be a press conference that afternoon and then Elliotte Friedman confrimed it: Dave Tippett will be the next head coach for the Edmonton Oilers. Tippett should be a familiar name to hockey fans as he [...]
Ramblings: Cup Final Begins; Kuznetsov; Power Play Ice Time – May 28
After a very lengthy layoff for Boston and the better part of a week for St. Louis, the Stanley Cup Final dropped the puck at long last. It was a game that didn’t lack for physicality and which the Bruins dominated most of the time. St. Louis got out to a 2-0 lead but Boston [...]
Predicted “Unlikely Western Conference Playoff Heroes” Revisited
It is time for a little gut check and to see how the predictions made at the start of the playoffs are bearing out. We were trying to find “unlikely playoff heroes.” The idea is that every year a couple of very surprising players emerge as key players for their team’s playoff runs. The top [...]
Top 10 interesting RFAs 2019
I’m sure this gets said every year, but this summer’s bevy of restricted free agents looks to be one of the deepest and most star-studded in a long time. After all, when was the last time we saw four 80-point players under the age of 24 all hit restricted free agency in the same summer? [...]