Hello, hope you’re doing well. Here is Evander Kane’s interview with ESPN First Take, where he discusses his take on the recent events in Minneapolis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etXjC3OTl5I&feature=youtu.be Good on Kane for using his voice to encourage star athletes to speak out against racism not only in the sports world, but also society at large. Akim Aliu’s [...]
So the NHL has a plan. A plan to play. And a plan for the playoffs. If you want some perspective on what it might mean for your fantasy league, make sure to check out Ian’s article here. For me it got me started thinking about playoff hockey again. It looks like we are having [...]
In case you missed it, I wrote about the NHL’s return to play plan. This article was intended as a follow-up to Dobber’s article from March on the NHL season being paused. Developing a contingency plan to finish a season that was cut short because of a pandemic wasn’t something we expected to do when [...]
Building off last week’s coverage of productive and cheap defencemen to look into for next season, this week we’re going to look at the forwards. Forwards need a higher level of production than defencemen do to be relevant, and there are always more options for you, so we’re going to look at a 50-point benchmark. [...]
In the Keeping Karlsson Fantasy Hockey Podcast's 31 Beats series, Elan and Brian are on a league-wide odyssey to explore the fantasy present and future landscapes of each of the NHL's 31 teams, gathering info by interviewing the people who know them best: beat writers! In this episode Elan is joined by The Athletic's Corey Masisak to [...]
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has declared that the 2019-20 NHL regular season is now complete. The NHL will return on an undisclosed future date with 24 teams competing for the Stanley Cup, starting with a 16-team play-in round. For more, see NHL.com. Deciding a winner (if any) in your fantasy league When the NHL season [...]
Gary Bettman had a virtual press conference on Tuesday to announce parts of the NHL’s Return to Play plan. Readers can head to NHL.com to read up on the playoff format, the draft lottery, and a few other details about the RTP. Anyone who has read my Ramblings knows where I stand on this. I [...]
Aside from wishing you all good health, I want to thank readers for continuing to send me questions despite the season being on hold. I suppose the situation we’re in provides us with more time to look at fantasy hockey and our teams and, in turn, ask questions about them. Now all that’s left is [...]
The big news in the world of hockey is the Return to Play directives have been decided. And along with them, the draft lottery and time of the draft. Hallelujah! The league officially welcomed in the 24-team ‘post-season’ plan which will feature 16 squads battling it out in a best-of-five series to earn the right [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, I’ll continue highlighting important fantasy hockey takeaways for each team in the Eastern Conference. I tried to include information from the 2019-2020 campaign that may be forgotten during this extended offseason. Hopefully, these reminders will be useful when NHL action eventually resumes. This is the second of four installments, where [...]
