It’s always news if Sidney Crosby leaves practice early. That’s what happened on Saturday, when the Penguins captain left in the second period of the team’s scrimmage for undisclosed reasons. For what it’s worth, Conor Sheary (remember he got traded back to the Penguins?) thought it was just a maintenance issue, but coach Mike Sullivan [...]
Welcome back, folks, and happy Saturday. It’s been a long road, but we finally have hockey back. Somewhat. I hope you have all been glued to your TVs and/or social media accounts and getting in your hockey fix, just in case. Whether it’s rush drills, breakouts, scrimmages, or even Zoom interviews, it’s been a breath [...]
The Vezina Trophy finalists were announced on Friday: Connor Hellebuyck, Andrei Vasilevskiy, Tuukka Rask. Here is the basic stats comparison of the three goalies using the Compare Goalies feature from Frozen Tools. NameScoreGPWLOTLSOGASASVGAASV%CONNOR HELLEBUYCK458312156140179616562.570.922TUUKKA RASK4412686585118911042.120.929ANDREI VASILEVSKIY252351433133160514722.560.917 And a partial extended stats comparison. I removed the last several columns on special teams save percentage, distance save [...]
As I explore the Dobber Reports, I continue to find really interesting reports and applications. There is a ton of data to sift through and many ways to look at it. We have had a bit of a mini-series on shots over the last year and I want to continue that today. This time I [...]
The Lady Byng Trophy finalists were announced on Thursday: Auston Matthews, Ryan O’Reilly, and Nathan MacKinnon. To fantasy owners, being nominated for this award should mean “move these guys down a notch in your rankings if your league counts penalty minutes.” If you believe the league will use a points-to-penalty minutes ratio to pick a [...]
This week's Capped updates the salary projections for all of the relevant 2020 UFA and RFAs. **** After last week’s article where I covered some thoughts on how to manage your cap team this offseason with the stagnant salary cap, this week we’re going to stick with that same concept and look over salary projections [...]
Editor's note: This week we have two pinch-hitters for the Ramblings. Rick Roos subbed in with a beauty on Monday (read it here). Today, Tom Collins steps up to the plate... The last time I wrote a rambling, Alexander Ovechkin scored his 700th goal and emergency backup netminder David Ayres defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs, [...]
By this time next month, the NHL should be well into its return-to-play plan with games in hub cities Toronto and Edmonton. This is provided that the COVID-19 situations in those cities don’t get out of control, though. Although play-in round and playoff stats aren’t counted in most regular-season fantasy leagues, we will keep an [...]
In a time when hockey news and stories were virtually non-existent, last month’s inductions into the Hockey Hall of Fame (HHOF) received even more attention than they normally would. That made me ponder: how many future HHOFers might be playing in today’s NHL? And when I start thinking about something, you get to vote on [...]
After a five-week summer vacation, I’m back in the Ramblings saddle and ready to gear up for some fantasy hockey talk. The timing couldn’t be better either. With training camps firing up this week, the storylines are once again plentiful. Let’s dive in. ** A couple of signings happened on Tuesday. The first was [...]
