Can a Canadian-based team win the Stanley Cup for the first time since 1993? The fun will begin on Monday night, with the Canadiens travelling to Tampa Bay to face the Lightning. Later today, our writers will give you their Stanley Cup and Conn Smythe picks, so you might have a pretty good idea of [...]
Welcome back to The Journey. Over the past few weeks, I had been making my predictions on the upcoming draft 2021 eligibles, bringing you a three-part Mock Draft. If you missed them, check them out here: Mock Draft Part One: Picks 1-5 Mock Draft Part Two: Picks 6-10 Mock Draft Part Three: Picks 11-15 While [...]
There was only one goal scored in Game 7 between the Islanders and Lightning, but those types of games turn out to be nailbiters instead of snoozefests when there’s so much on the line. In the end, Andrei Vasilevskiy didn’t make any mistakes, making 18 saves in the 1-0 shutout win for Tampa Bay. Vasilevskiy [...]
Now that we have wrapped up our ‘Most Valuable” series we are going to turn our attention to playoff results. (To review the season’s most valuable players check it out here for centermen, left wings, right wings, defensemen, and goalies). We won't focus on matchup results so much as on what various players accomplished during [...]
Montreal and Vegas played a game that looked like most of the games this series: tight-checking, low-scoring, and on a knife’s edge of mistakes. The Habs were able to hold on to a 2-1 lead for a large chunk of the night, but a third-period goal sent it to overtime again. Alec Martinez was able [...]
Here are the top goalies to own in your points-only keeper leagues - June edition! NOTE: Go by Tiers when assessing value! The ratings are provided for sake of trend (last month vs. this month). So no, the player rated 22nd is not worse than the player rated 12th - they are equal! Both are [...]
The Seattle Kraken have named their first head coach. For months now, it was expected to be Rick Tocchet, but those rumours seemed to have fallen apart over the last few days. New names emerged this week, and today the team announced that Dave Hakstol will be the franchise’s first bench boss. What does this [...]
Same as the last two weeks, I will review two players that fall into each category. The good will cover players that produced over expectations and provided really good-to-exceptional value to their cap hit. The ‘bad’ – perhaps better viewed as fair market value, or players that produced on par with salary expectations. The ugly, [...]
Carl Gunnarsson has retired from the NHL after 12 seasons. He always seemed kind of underrated, but he generally brought really good defence to the middle of any blue line. He was a reliable part of many successful Blues teams, including the Cup winner in 2019. He retires at the age of 34 with over [...]
Welcome back to another edition of the Roos Lets Loose monthly mailbag, where I answer your fantasy hockey questions by giving advice that should be useful to all poolies even if they don’t own the specific players being discussed. As a reminder, if you want your fantasy hockey question(s) answered in the next mailbag, check [...]
