As the calendar flips to November the first month of the NHL season is in the books. How about some early fantasy MVP’s? Well of course Connor McDavid leads the way but that’s a surprise to no one. Some other notable performances early on are the resurgence of Erik Karlsson and his ten goals on [...]
Happy weekend! I’m covering for Ian Saturday and Sunday, so you get an extra dose of Alex this week. * The Avalanche and Blue Jackets kicked off their weekend double header yesterday, with both games being hosted in Finland. We’ve seen a few of these overseas games in the middle of the season before, and [...]
Whether or not we all want to admit it, if you’re in more than one fantasy league, there’s always one league that you likely give favor to. It might be like picking between children, but there’s always that “favorite” league out of the bunch. That’s the league you’re on the waiver wire more often, give [...]
In this Frozen Tools column we love to keep an eye on deployment, it has become a bit of a theme of the articles over the years. Getting access to top-six minutes and top power-play time is usually critical to success. Unless you are somehow able to watch every game it is hard to stay [...]
Cam Talbot made his season and Senators debut on Thursday, although it wasn’t planned that way. Anton Forsberg was given the hook after allowing five goals on 19 shots. Forsberg has allowed at least four goals in each of his last three games, so should we call him Foursberg? Kidding aside, Forsberg has hit a [...]
It is Thursday once again, and we are going to find a few prop bets that will win us some money. We have a huge slate of NHL games tonight with 13, which gives us ample opportunity to find some winners. With how many games there are tonight you must take the time to study [...]
After Tuesday, I’ve decided to take the easy way out - just pick Edmonton’s top power play, the best goalkeeper, and leave the rest of the card blank. If this works one time in five, you’d be ahead! Ok, back to reality. Consecutive shutouts in the World Series, and I’m taking the “over” tonight. For [...]
This week’s article is going to be centered around potential waiver wire additions that you can explore to help mitigate the damage of a big injury, to kickstart some production on a slumping team, and realistically some of the players on the waiver wire are potential trade chips.What makes a player a good waiver wire [...]
Toronto’s blue line has struggled at times this year. Justin Holl’s on-ice expected goals against rate at 5-on-5, for example, is bordering near 3.0 per 60 minutes. His pairing with Rasmus Sandin did not go well, and neither did the pairing with the now-injured Jake Muzzin. There is some help coming, though: https://twitter.com/koshtorontosun/status/1587826945546387457 It was [...]
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 our last article. If you ever need injury updates for a specific player, shoot me a message on [...]
