The Top 200 Cap League Skater rankings are a pet project of mine that I started in 2019, and though the rankings are constantly evolving, some of the results continue to surprise me. The latest iteration (linked at the beginning) was published on Monday. This week I’m going to dive into a few unexpected players [...]
David Pastrnak is expected back with Boston sooner rather than later, but they still have games to play in the interim and that top-line right wing spot is still a coveted spot. At practice on Wednesday, we saw a new face: Prax lines: Marchand-Bergeron-Smith Ritchie-Krejci-Coyle Frederic-Lindholm-Studnicka Bjork-Kuraly-Wagner McKegg-Pastrnak Lauzon-McAvoy Grzelcyk-Carlo Zboril-Miller Vaakanainen-Clifton Moore Halak [...]
Here’s the latest injury news from across the NHL! If you’re looking for information about a specific player and don’t see their name in this article, there probably haven’t been any significant updates about their progress since last week’s Injury Ward. If you ever need injury updates for a specific player, shoot me a message on Twitter @BrennanDeSouza! [...]
Many years ago, Dobber coined the term Band-Aid Boy to refer to a player who seems to find a way to get injured most every year, wreaking havoc on countless fantasy teams in the process. The term grew in popularity, such that now there’s a dedicated section of the site that lists the current crop [...]
John Klingberg has been on another level to begin the 2021 season. A tallied an unassisted powerplay marker in regulation and then set up the OT winner with incredible patience to give Dallas the win on Tuesday. https://twitter.com/NHLGIFs/status/1354279707265654784?s=20 The two-point night extends his season-long point streak to three games and six points. And outside of [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll highlight players that you might be able to acquire at low cost, and others that you may be able to offload for a nice profit. As they say, buy low and sell high! Buy Low Rasmus Dahlin The 20-year-old defenseman hasn’t registered a point through his first six [...]
Welcome back to ‘Lining Up’, brought to you by your friendly neighborhood Rinkman. It’s been an eventful week. We’ve seen that reports of the Pens demise were greatly exaggerated, that Vancouver stacks up Ls like a bad Tetris player, and that the Stars really need to work on their power play. Only eight goals on [...]
The Salary Cap League Rankings are here! All of the top 62 goalies. **** Here are the top 62 goalies to own in your salary cap league – January 26, 2021 edition. The list made it through 2020! This ranking system is a lot younger than the skater version, so it’s not quite as refined [...]
Important Boston Bruins update as David Pastrnak was skating with a white sweater in practice yesterday. That is generally an indicator that a player is getting closer to returning. The Bruins have a pair of games at home this week before a short four-game road trip. Pastrnak getting in another 10 days of practice before [...]
Weekly Western Leaders (to January 24th, 2021) Goals – 5 – Mikko Rantanen - Colorado, Bo Horvat - Vancouver Assists – 9 - Anze Kopitar - Los Angeles Points – 10 - Anze Kopitar - Los Angeles, Connor McDavid - Edmonton PPP – 6 - Joe Pavelski - Dallas (only two games) Shots on Goal [...]
