Yearly Archives: 2019

Ramblings: Selling High on Carlson, Power Play Regression, Goaltending Duos, Markstrom & Forsberg (Oct 23)

By |2019-10-22T23:06:12-04:00October 22nd, 2019|Hockey Rambling|

  Vancouver visited Detroit in the final match of their four-game road trip. Jacob Markstrom started his second consecutive game after missing three while away to deal with personal matters. Over that span, rookie, Thatcher Demko stood tall. The 23-year-old won two while posting a 0.944 save percentage.    Demko has a lot of motivation [...]

Eastern Edge: Players to buy low

By |2019-10-22T13:02:16-04:00October 22nd, 2019|Eastern Edge|

  A mere $100 investment in Apple stock in 2002 would have grown into more than $13,000 today. A small investment into any of the players below might yield a fantasy hockey championship in a few months. In this week’s Eastern Edge, we take a look at a few players in the Eastern Conference whose [...]

Ramblings: Rantanen injured; Josh Anderson returns; Philly flys; random facts – October 22

By |2019-10-21T21:00:45-04:00October 22nd, 2019|Hockey Rambling|

  The big news for Monday was that the Flyers had called up Joel Farabee, one of their top prospects. He slotted on the third line with Kevin Hayes and Scott Laughton, while finding himself on the top power-play unit. What’s more is that he was immediately slotted into the bumper role on the top [...]

Wild West: 6 Surging Defensemen

By |2019-10-21T12:18:22-04:00October 21st, 2019|The Wild West|

  Over the past couple of games, I have been seeing a few defensemen popping up quite a few times in the box scores. I’ll be honest one was Oscar Klefbom and I had to check and see if it was an illusion. That led to looking at the top-scoring D in the west - [...]

Fantasy Hockey Podcast: Ceeping Carlson

By |2019-10-21T01:27:37-04:00October 21st, 2019|Keeping Karlsson|

On this episode of the Keeping Karlsson Fantasy Hockey Podcast, we laud an early blueline barnstormer, explore some buy low and sell high scenarios, and try and separate cause and effect when figuring out the fantasy futures of groups of players skating on struggling teams.   Players discussed on this episode include John Carlson, Jakub [...]

Ramblings: Thoughts on a couple of organizational goalie battles, and some waiver wire recommendations (Oct 21)

By |2019-10-20T22:52:56-04:00October 20th, 2019|Hockey Rambling|

  Ramblings: Thoughts on a couple of organizational goalie battles, and some waiver wire recommendations (Oct 21) *** Only three goalies that have played at least three games have 100% for Quality Starts: Tuukka Rask (four starts, four QS), Darcy Kuemper (five starts, five QS) and Thatcher Demko (three and three). In the case of [...]

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