After about a month of play, I’m going to go through each team in the West and choose an MVP and the most disappointing player to date. I’m going to look at factors like faceoffs, blocks, hits, Corsi, time on ice and of course production. I’m sure there are other opinions out there, so let [...]
Now that most NHL teams are at the 10-game mark of the season, fantasy general managers are trying to get a sense of where they stand with their team. It's not easy. It seems as if there are more than the usual number of injuries to top stars this year, plus Covid protocols are also [...]
What to say about Tyler Bertuzzi? He has points in just six of his 10 games and yet he has 15 points. Four of them were multi-point games. He’s starting to get a reputation for those. The multi-point games are about as common as the single-point games. But that means that there are a lot [...]
We are now a full week into November and there’s no shortage of interesting storylines to follow this season. The Carolina Hurricanes’ miraculous winning streak to start the season finally came to an end last night when they ran into the other hottest team in the league, the Florida Panthers. The Leafs have seemed to [...]
As has been rumored for the past couple weeks, the Blackhawks have pulled the plug on Jeremy Colliton. For more on what it means, you can check out the Fantasy Take that I wrote earlier today. One other stat that I found out after I posted the article: The Blackhawks actually have the fifth-best penalty [...]
Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. This week, I wanted to highlight the progress that some of the NHL’s prospects have made, and what that progress will lead to in their immediate future. The names below have [...]
After the team won just one of its first 12 games, the Chicago Blackhawks have dismissed head coach Jeremy Colliton and assistant coaches Tomas Mitell and Sheldon Brookbank. Derek King, the head coach of the Hawks’ AHL affiliate in Rockford, has been named interim head coach. The Blackhawks had high hopes of being competitive this [...]
Let’s get this out of the way off the jump: Last week was rough, as a 2-4 record would indicate. I’m not shook, though. It’s early in the season and this past week has been solid in terms of bouncing back. Since we last ran through my Saturday selections, my picks have gone a solid [...]
With no Edmonton to pay up for, Toronto in a somewhat tough matchup, and a few other top teams such as Florida and Tampa Bay excluded from this Saturday slate, we’ve got the chance to get a little weird and play (and in my case write about) a few teams that normally might not make [...]
The Patrik Laine comeback season has been delayed. The Blue Jackets winger is expected to miss the next 4 to 6 weeks with an oblique strain. Laine had been delivering on that hope, scoring 10 points (3 G, 7 A) in nine games. Cole Sillinger, who is one of the players profiled in this week’s [...]
