Not including rookies or players who missed significant time in 2023-24 or 2024-25, I wanted to list the skaters who have improved and declined the most from their 2023-24 campaigns. I will be relying a little on my player-game ratings as they give me a simple number to compare against. An average player rating for [...]
Not including rookies or players who missed significant time in 2023-24 or 2024-25, I wanted to list the skaters who have improved and declined the most from their 2023-24 campaigns. I’m going to be relying a little on my player-game ratings as it gives me a simple number to compare against. An average player rating [...]
Last year around this time, I wrote about which players drove play the most and the least on each team in the West. I relied on IPP (Individual Points Percentage) and secondary assists, which is a very simplistic way to determine the players, but it has some validity. IPP is the percentage of on-ice goals [...]
Last week we wrote about what each team in the Western Conference might do at the trade deadline. This week we will write about what each team in the West actually did. I’m going to include trades that have been made since the beginning of 2025. Prices were high in the days leading up to [...]
The NHL trade deadline is at noon PST on March 7th. We will look at each team in the West and determine if they are buyers or sellers, considering which players a seller might deal and what positions a buyer needs to bolster. Anaheim Ducks - 26W - 25L - 7OT - 59 PTS - [...]
We last checked in with AHL prospects for Western teams in mid-November. I’ve added a few players since then as some of the mid-level prospects have had good seasons. This is part two after posting part one last week here. We’re not going to include players over the age of 25 or any player currently [...]
With the NHL being on a two week break and the Four Nations halfway finished, we can focus on some prospects. I might have been completely mistaken about the intensity levels of the Four Nations when I thought it might be an All-Star type competition. I’m happy to have been wrong as the hockey has [...]
Honestly, I rarely talk about goalies in the Wild West. I don’t understand them and as I’ve said many times before, they are a mystery to me. They don’t follow the same path of development as skaters and they can be on top of the world one year and then crash and burn the next. [...]
It was a very busy Tuesday night schedule with 14 games, but I gather they are trying to squeeze in games before the Four Nations begins on February 12. Miro Heiskanen is going to be out month-to-month after undergoing knee surgery on Tuesday. He was injured after being taken out by Mark Stone in a [...]
I’ve updated my player valuations up to the end of January and thought we could go through the best surpluses and worst deficits on each team in the West. This is a comparison to what level a player is performing at compared to their actual salary cap hit. It is easy to say that a [...]
