The top rookies in the Western Conference, 2016-17 edition... Top Western Conference Rookies The players featured this week have all played fewer than 30 NHL games in their career. These are players who have a good shot of not only making their team but also playing enough to make a fantasy contribution. For instance [...]
The 10 best centermen in the Western Conference for fantasy hockey. Best of the West: Centers As always this is the deepest category, and this year is no different as even the honorable mentions should at worst come close to 60 points, whereas the wingers and defensemen were barely scratching 50 points by [...]
The 10 best left wingers in the Western Conference for fantasy hockey. The weighting and the focus this week does not change much except for shifting sides of the ice. This was the ranking thus far with the most change as Andrew Ladd and Taylor Hall left the Western Conference and there was [...]
Doran continues his look through the West by focusing on right wingers this week. […]
Running down the top 10 fantasy hockey defensemen from the Western Conference. […]
The Best in the West - who are the best fantasy goalies in the Western Conference? ‘Best in the West ‘returns for a second year starting with the best goalies in the Western Conference. Goalies cannot be judged strictly on individual talent, because even though that is very important a very good goalie on [...]
Looking at the three UFA signings in the West with limited fantasy upside - and two more that are just plain bad... After looking at the best free agent signings from a fantasy hockey perspective this week the focus turns to the worst of the fantasy relevant signings. These signings are largely cases where [...]
Looking at the three best UFA signings in the Western Conference, as well as two more with potential upside... Free Agents (Part 1) The free agent season marks a brief period when NHL general managers overpay players who are way past their prime for far too much term. Whether the contracts themselves are [...]
Doran Libin weighs in on what's ahead for PK Subban and Adam Larsson Just before the opening of free agency the NHL was rocked by two massive trades that were nearly universally panned as heavily favoring one of the teams involved. Three of the four players to switch teams are top fantasy assets at their [...]
Libin takes a close look at Mathieu Perreault and Bo Horvat. What can you expect in the season ahead? Second-liners in the NHL come in a variety of forms, the way each team uses its second line will dictate the value of each second-liner. Second-liners are often expected to produce between 40 to 60 [...]
