On Saturday, Patrick Kane and even Sam Lafferty joined the “roster management” club. Already included in that prestigious group are Jakob Chychrun, Vladislav Gavrikov, and Luke Schenn, while Timo Meier is believed to be recovering from an upper-body injury. If any of these players are on your roster, how do you feel about that? I’m [...]
The Winnipeg Jets have acquired winger Nino Niederreiter from the Nashville Predators for a second-round pick in the 2024 draft. In his first season with the Predators, Niederreiter has 18 goals and 10 assists (28 points) in 56 games, including four goals in his last three games. He has one more season after this one [...]
Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. Dillon Dube, 24, is on a 67-point pace over his last 38 games. I would love to say that this is his new normal but his outlook is clouded by lack [...]
The Vancouver Canucks have acquired forward Vitali Kravtsov from the New York Rangers for forward Will Lockwood and a 2026 seventh-round pick. Kravtsov was the ninth-overall pick in the 2018 draft, so he arrives on the Canucks with some pedigree. Whether it’s because of lack of opportunity or unhappiness about his situation with the Rangers, [...]
The St. Louis Blues have claimed right wing Kasperi Kapanen off waivers from the Pittsburgh Penguins. Kapanen has been scoring below a 0.5 PT/GP pace both this season and last. However, he finished with 30 points in 40 games during the shortened 2020-21 season, so he still provides some scoring upside. Kapanen and his $3.2 [...]
The shuffling of the NHL’s rosters continued on Thursday, as the current Stanley Cup front-running Boston Bruins added toughness and depth with another late-season trade we’ve become accustomed to them making over the past number of years. A stacked Boston lineup gets an injection of size and grit in forward Garnet Hathaway and blue-liner Dmitry [...]
I spent much of last week’s article talking up the slate as one of the best of the year for an NHL DFS player. Unfortunately for me, my lineups did not cooperate. For anyone reading, hopefully you made out better and were able to turn the night into a success. If your lineups were more [...]
Anthony Duclair made his long-awaited season debut on Friday after missing the entire season so far with an Achilles injury. Duclair registered an assist along with four shots and a team-leading five hits in 17 minutes of icetime, which included second-unit power-play time. Duclair (24% Yahoo/45% Fantrax) is worth a pickup if you need scoring [...]
Welcome back and we are right in the middle of a very interesting stretch of the fantasy season as well as the NHL. For fantasy we’re getting right down to the wire where your league probably has the top two or three teams guaranteed to make playoffs, some fringe seeing behind that, and then you’re [...]
This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we are going to take a quick detour from our recent focus on skaters and point production. Today we are looking at on goalies. In most standard leagues we use bunch of goalie stats that goalies don”t necessarily have a lot of control over. Much of the value comes [...]
