The hits just keep coming for Ottawa as the team added Alex Formenton, Nikita Zaitsev, and Matt Murray to the COVID list. That now gives them nine players and a coach on that list for the time being, which began Thursday night against Los Angeles. The game went on as scheduled, despite the talk that [...]
Welcome back to Part III of our weaving through the new landscape of defenceman values. You can find Part I here, where we covered the new expensive high-profile contracts signed over the summer. And Part II here, where we looked at some of the defencemen we had previously written off as overvalued, and who we [...]
Here are the top 200 prospect forwards to own in your points-only dynasty leagues - November edition! As always, players with a rating within +/-5.0 of each other should be considered equal and at that point become a matter of team need or personal bias (i.e. wait time vs. upside vs. certainty). Click on a [...]
It has been a remarkable start to the season for Anaheim’s Troy Terry, perhaps one of their forgotten prospects. While not a true prospect anymore, really, he has fewer than two seasons of games played and just turned 24 in September. If he could find his trajectory as a prospect again, there could be something [...]
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 article. If you ever need injury updates for a specific player, shoot me a message on Twitter @BrennanDeSouza. Alex Galchenyuk – [...]
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 [...]
The NHL continues to completely ruin the response to the Brad Aldrich situation. It’s extremely disheartening to see that they really just don’t care about the players, and won’t make any move to care for anything but the bottom-line of the business. At least we have players like Carey Price that are starting to take [...]
We are four weeks into the season and there are plenty of opportunities for players to take advantage of new roles. Sometimes a player gets thrust into a new, more prominent role due to a team shuffling up their lines. The other key reason is an injury to somebody above you on the depth chart. [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge: Duclair’s hot; Petry’s not. Fortunes can change quickly in the NHL and one player on this list started on the fourth line for his team in the season opener. The other player is the cornerstone of his team’s blue line, has four straight 40-point seasons, but is on pace for [...]
We are about a month into the NHL season and it does seem like the games are flying by, right? It doesn’t feel like a month has passed since the season opener, but here we are. While it’s still too early to make some determinations, there are definitely some players and situations I’ve moved on [...]
