Everyone needs help in fantasy, and by this point in the season, you generally know where the holes are on your roster. I also find that this is usually the best time to start trading, as other teams have formed their opinions on who they want to keep, and who they are willing to [...]
Here are the top prospect goaltenders to own in fantasy hockey - Fall edition! Every spring and fall I sift through the 200 goaltenders on my template and dig deeper into the prospects. It's a different rating system than it is with the regular list, as more emphasis is on upside and the team's [...]
The Toronto Maple Leafs fired Mike Babcock on Wednesday afternoon, following two years of playoff disappointments and a start to this season that saw Toronto with nine wins in 23 games, sporting an expected goals percentage just slightly ahead of Detroit’s. Sheldon Keefe has been named as his replacement. I really don’t have a [...]
The writing had been on the wall, but on Wednesday afternoon we finally saw the other shoe drop. After a 9-10-4 start that had the Toronto Maple Leafs flailing outside the Eastern Conference playoff picture, the club opted to let go of the highest-paid coach in the game. With him goes a legacy of [...]
Here’s the latest news in the world of NHL injuries! To see injury updates from around the league as soon as they’re made public, follow me on Twitter @BrennanDeSouza! Hampus Lindholm – Isn’t with the team as they travel through Florida to face the Panthers on Thursday and Lightning on Saturday. There haven’t been [...]
Here are the top goaltenders to own in your keeper leagues - November edition! Value goaltenders by Tiers, not by ranking. Ranking is there for splitting hairs, but no formula is perfect. A goalie within a tier is as good as another. With the fluctuation of goaltender values, generally speaking you should not [...]
I decided to focus this week’s poll on something that’s debated a lot but, as far as I’m aware, has never been voted on here at the site, namely which players are signed to the worst contracts. Of course, when using a word like “worst” it’s not always easy to measure one player versus [...]
The NHL released some ‘at the quarter-mark’ stats via their public relations on Tuesday and it’s just a good as we had hoped it would be. Heading into Tuesday’s contests, this season’s 1956 goals scored represent the second-most markers in the last 23 seasons (2005-06 had 2007 goals). Additionally, the 1462 even-strength tallies are the [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we take a look at who has been struggling and who has been thriving over the past month (October 18th – November 18th). When you’re looking at a player’s performance, his overall numbers for the season are the easiest to access as they’re the first thing you see on [...]
This week’s installment I have compiled a list of the top 20 lines at even strength over the last ten games. I have also added a new column to the table below. I’ve added a combined AAV for each line. With that info I will be looking at which lines have the best value [...]
