Hey folks welcome back for part two. I’ll skip all pre-amble and just jump right into the next six teams. Anyone that missed our first part can find it here. In it, we covered players like Chychrun, Shattenkirk, Markstrom, and Coyle. Chicago Black Hawks BUY: Dylan Strome (C) $3M, 1 year This is admittedly a [...]
One player that seems to have performed incredibly well so far in the preseason is Cole Sillinger. The 2021 12th overall pick has earned glowing reports from coaches and media alike, and he’s been lining up with Jakub Voracek quite often. This continued in practice yesterday: https://twitter.com/BrianHedger/status/1443221930950156295 Sillinger was over a PPG player as a [...]
Welcome to the offseason edition of ‘Injury Ward’, with preseason injury updates from around the NHL! If you want to see the latest injury news before your fellow fantasy managers, follow me on Twitter @BrennanDeSouza! Phil Kessel – The 33-year-old winger sustained a foot injury while training and is currently in a walking boot. About a week [...]
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 [...]
Mackenzie Blackwood is the lone New Jersey Devil that is not yet vaccinated, meaning he won’t be able to play games in Canada this year. He joins Josh Archibald, Tyler Bertuzzi, Bode Wilde, and Zac Rinaldo as the known NHL players and relevant affiliated players to not be vaccinated. Bertuzzi can be knocked a bit [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll discuss players that are currently being drafted later than they should be in fantasy leagues. Add these names to your watch list if you’re looking for steals in the late rounds. For these, we are using ADP data from Yahoo. Just beware that the later the drafts go, the [...]
We’re a few days into preseason and there are certainly some intriguing spots coming out of camp for some players. With minimal happening so far, we can only dive into some practice lines and a few preseason games so let’s see what there is. Ondrej Kase - The talk heading into camp was Nick Ritchie [...]
Many people over the age of 40 remember the great game called “Small World”. Thousands and thousands played it and loved it, for all the main sports. You select your team of players and using five transactions per week you would use the inter-game economic system to not only accrue the most points, but acquire [...]
Last week I did my first best ball of the season, doing so over at Underdog Fantasy. They have a season-long tournament up where it’s $10 to enter with a top prize of $5K. There are 16 rounds in the draft, but each roster only counts five players to their final standings: one centre, two [...]
I have a theory that while poolies prefer potential breakout candidates over bounce-back candidates they are unwise to do so. It is better to go with the bounce-back than the breakout. This theory is based on my participation in hockey pools for decades. In fact, my first year in a pool was when a rookie [...]
