Welcome to week 12 of our summer series. Like last season, this series is intended to take a look at the teams in the Western Conference one by one. We will do a short recap of what took place, but the deep dive here will be into the players that helped make it so, [...]
Ramblings: Bishop vs. Binnington, Tarasenko vs. Laine, Jimmy Vesey, Victor Olofsson, Thatcher Demko and more (Aug 26) *** The Fantasy Guide update from Saturday includes Patrick Maroon to the Lightning – and how that shifted the roster around. Information that the newsstands do not have – including updated line combos. * {source}<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p [...]
Fantasy Impact: The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed hulking winger Patrick Maroon to a cheap little one-year deal at $900,000. The Lightning get: a 6-3, 225-pound power forward coming off a Stanley Cup win for his hometown St. Louis Blues. Maroon took a pay cut and more of a depth role to play in [...]
Ramblings: The Lowdown on Provorov, Parayko, Nylander, Virtanen, six other players of fantasy interest, plus the Kuznetsov fallout (Aug 24) *** The Fantasy Guide update from yesterday includes Derick Brassard on the Islanders – and how that shifted the roster around. Earlier this week: Valeri Nichushkin on the Avalanche, a new article on my [...]
Here are the Top 100 goalies to own in your keeper leagues - August edition! Sorry not sorry. This is the first time my Top 100 list is untouched from the prior month. Sure, little tweaks were made outside the list - Eddie Lack retired (was far out of this list anyway), and further [...]
Here are the Top 50 prospect defensemen to own in your fantasy hockey keeper leagues - August edition! This month's prospect list is adjusted based on any relation it had with the players on the overall Top 300 skaters list. It does take a small influence from the values in that list because prospects who can [...]
Here are the Top 200 forward prospects to own in your fantasy hockey keeper leagues - August edition! This month's prospect list is adjusted based on any relation it had with the players on the overall Top 300 skaters list. It does take a small influence from the values in that list because prospects [...]
Fantasy Impact: The Colorado Avalanche have signed free agent winger Valeri Nichushkin to a one-year deal worth $850,000 per Stephen Whyno. Colorado gets: a big player with a lot of upside, but at the age of 24 has shown very little of it.Criticized for being soft and not using his 6-4, 210-pound frame, Nichushkin [...]
Ramblings: The Lowdown on Nurse, Kotkaniemi, Arvidsson, Beauvillier, White and five other players of fantasy interest (Aug 19) *** The Fantasy Guide update from yesterday included a new article on my projected team-by-team goals-for (and how many goals the league will be up/down in the year ahead). Last year I figured the NHL would [...]
So here's what he did: we opened the floor to suggestions for how to make the Keeping Karlsson Ultimate Patron Fantasy League(KKUPFL) even better with one rule change. Then we put them all into a tournament elimination bracket, and promised that the last one standing would be in for Season 5 of the KKUPFL. With [...]
