Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening. Welcome to the Injury Ward. My name is Logan Clarkson and every Wednesday I will be chauffeuring you through injury news and updates from around the NHL. I’ll do my best to offer useful analysis and opinion as it relates to fantasy throughout. As always I'd like to [...]
Welcome back to Goldipucks and the Three Skaters, a play on words of the Goldilocks and the Three Bears story. Instead of there being three bowls of porridge though, I cover three skaters and declare one too hot (i.e., doing unsustainably better than he should), another too cold (i.e., doing unsustainably worse), and a third [...]
The Capitals announced yesterday that Alex Ovechkin is out week-to-week, and we have a new Injury Ward writer to cover the big news. We're bringing in Logan Clarkson from GoaliePost over to take over the column from Blake Creamer. All the best to Blake, and keep your eyes peeled for Logan's debut this afternoon. Back [...]
Welcome back to another edition of Lining Up! This week will do a deep dive into Colorado’s recent line combinations since the team has received an influx of talent in addition to a couple of noteworthy players in good or poor situations. Let’s dive in. Colorado With reinforcements finally coming to bolster the Colorado lineup, [...]
Good day, all! How’d everyone play last night? For me, I was in a weird tournament where 91.9 points doubled my entry fee, with a big gap between those in the 90’s and the next big bump in rewards. Those happen sometimes! It’s also weird saying but I would like to give a big thanks [...]
Carolina now leads the conference, Washington continues to skyrocket, the Flyers surge past .500 and Pittsburgh continues to struggle. Let’s check in on our Eastern Conference. All stats and records are up to date as of Monday afternoon. Carolina Hurricanes // 13-4-0 // L7 Days: 3-1-0 Martin Necas cannot be stopped. He’s completely overshadowing [...]
As of Tuesday, it has been over two weeks since Brayden Point was in the lineup for the Tampa Bay Lightning, and any injury lasting more than a week always raises some eyebrows. The Lightning, and fantasy managers, got some good news on Monday, though, as he was back at practice. He was skating on [...]
I thought we could check in on some of the young prospects who are in the AHL and see how they are doing and what progression/regression that they might be showing. I’m not going to include players who are currently in the NHL or players over the age of 25. Abbotsford Canucks (Vancouver) Kirill Kudryavtsev [...]
Carolina, who averages the most shots for and the fewest against, experienced a rarity on Sunday as they were outshout by the Blues. Still, they pulled out a 4-1 victory over St. Louis. Pyotr Kochetkov had a strong showing, stopping 29 of the 30 shots he faced. Kochetkov has been better when busy this season. [...]
Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this article, I will be taking a look at peripheral categories (shots, hits, blocks, and penalty minutes). I’ll take a deep dive into how much value they actually bring to your fantasy team. Someone like Jeremy Lauzon may lead the league in hits, but he’ll [...]
