The fantasy hockey season rolls on as we arrive into the final days of January! Today will be the last day of normalcy before the fantasy schedule gets hit with a bit of a curveball thanks to the NHL All-Star Weekend coming up next week. Just keep in mind that in most weekly formats, the [...]
Alex DeBrincat entered Saturday’s game with no points in his last four games and just three points in 12 games in January. Prior to January, DeBrincat was a point-per-game player (36 points in 36 games). Fortunately, DeBrincat scored a goal on Saturday and had also recorded an assist that appeared to be taken away later. [...]
Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. The Rangers’ “Kid Line” of Alexis Lafreniere (21), Kaapo Kakko (21), and Filip Chytil (23) has been hot lately: Chytil has led the way with 12 points in his last 11 [...]
Another wild week of NHL news, injuries, and action is nearly in the books. Before that, we have what should be another jam-packed Saturday of hockey bets and breakdowns to take in. With a string of injuries across the league to some top goalies in the likes of Cam Talbot, Frederik Andersen, and Tristan Jarry [...]
For the NHL daily fantasy player, I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is we have a nice nine-game slate on tap for us on this DFS Saturday. Personally, I consider the 7-9 game range the sweet spot, as it’s not too many games that you get bogged down looking [...]
Auston Matthews is expected to be out for at least the next three weeks with a knee sprain. Matthews reportedly injured his knee during Wednesday’s game against the Rangers. With the injury to Matthews, Michael Bunting moved to the first-unit power play for Friday’s game against Ottawa. As well, Bunting was on the Leafs’ new [...]
With the NHL All-Star game on the horizon the schedule is going to get a little out of sorts for a short time. For now, though, let’s take a look at some moves to make before the break that can help your fantasy team leading into February.The Immediate Fix (Grab this guy and use him [...]
Keeping with the theme of recent weeks, we are going to do a bit of a dive into one specific area this week. Today the topic is goal scoring and how we can use connected data points to make better informed decisions about player performance. To address goal scoring we are going to rely on [...]
In Minnesota’s last game, forward Ryan Hartman took a late penalty that put his team on the penalty kill with under five minutes left and down a goal. The coach wasn’t happy, Hartman knew it was a dumb penalty, and that led to him being healthy scratched on Thursday: https://twitter.com/jessi_pierce/status/1618627968477327361 Brandon Duhaime took his spot [...]
In this edition of Capped, I plan on discussing some of the league’s premier youngsters, mainly the ones who are eligible to win the Calder Trophy, which is awarded to the best rookie of the season. I spoke about a few rookies back in November as well, touching on Matty Beniers of Seattle, Calen Addison [...]
