Capped: Goalies to know heading into the Trade Deadline
With the trade deadline coming up in under a month, now is the time to be bearing down and sorting out where your roster needs help. Especially this season, for a lot of us that spot is in net. Whether the season started with Braden Holtby, Matt Murray, Sergei Bobrovsky, or another struggling starter [...]
Ramblings: Ullmark injured; Habs getting healthy; Benn; Kassian; Nashville ice time – January 30
The Sabres recalled goaltender Jonas Johansson from the AHL, given the injury to Linus Ullmark. We found out that Ullmark will miss at least a few weeks with his lower-body injury, which with how it looked at the time is probably the best we could hope for. I was just crossing my fingers it [...]
Injury Ward: The Doctor Will See You Now
Jordan Oesterle – We haven’t gotten much of an update the entire time regarding Oesterle’s injury which kept him out of the Coyotes last 2 games before the All-Star break but he did skate on Monday. Barrett Hayton – There hasn’t been an update on Barrett Hayton since he played with a separated [...]
Fantasy Poll: The Next Wave of 50-Goal Scorers
Pop quiz – other than Alex Ovechkin, how many players have scored 50+ goals in a regular-season since 2010-11? Would you believe just four, three of whom (Corey Perry, Steven Stamkos and Evgeni Malkin) did so in the first two seasons of the decade, with the fourth (Leon Draisaitl) having accomplished the feat in [...]
Ramblings: Makar Clicking at Historic Rates, Road Warriors, Sorokin & Podkolzin (Jan 29)
With a light NHL lineup on Tuesday evening, let's dive into a few other topics. First up is just how dominant offensively Cale Makar has been as a first-year player. We're talking historically good. Digging through 30 years of stats, here are the most productive first 40-career games by a blueliner: Niklas [...]
Top 100 Keeper League Goaltenders – January 2020
Here are the Top 31 goaltenders to own in your keeper leagues - January edition! With link to the full Top 100... Fantasy goalies are a fickle project - from greatness to horrible, and back again in a matter of months. I do what I can to stabilize the value, putting emphasis on track [...]
Lining Up: Drouin, Gallagher, Strome, the Oilers, and the Panthers
Good day everyone. I hope you were able to take in some of the all-star festivities this past weekend. I was able to watch all the games on Saturday and even though it was the all-star game, three-on-three sure is a lot of fun to watch when there are a bunch of high caliber [...]