Last season around this time I ranked team defenses in the West based on my player game ratings. I created a google sheet, where I entered all of the player game ratings into a depth chart for each NHL team. I updated the sheet about once a month during the season, to account for trades, [...]
Members of the 100/100 Club need to have both 100 Hits and 100 BLKS in a season. It’s more unique than I would have guessed before looking at it in detail. There are players who are very physical but don’t block many shots, while there are players like Alec Martinez who lead the league in [...]
It is never too early to start considering your fantasy teams for next season, especially for those in keeper pools. This week, I’m going to go through each of the Western Conference teams and highlight the players who I think can surpass what they have done so far in their short NHL careers. Most NHL [...]
We are going to check in with each team in the West and see how the new trade addition(s) to their roster are doing. Anaheim Ducks Brock McGinn was the only roster player who Anaheim added to their team. He has two more years remaining after this one at $2.75 million AAV. After putting up [...]
This week I’m going to review every team in the Western Conference and grade how they did either buying or selling leading up to and on trade deadline day. Anaheim Ducks - Seller In: 2024 - 3rd round pick - San Jose 2024 - 3rd round pick - Pittsburgh 2025 - 4th round pick - [...]
I don’t typically write about just one player each week, but I thought I would expand on something I had dabbled with a few months back on my own and look into the progression of Elias Pettersson of the Vancouver Canucks on a much deeper level. Pettersson had an excellent rookie season in 2018-19 with [...]
Dobber’s Frozen Tools has a new feature available to Patreon members that gives the ability to look at every team’s last three games and see what the lines were at even strength, on the power play and shorthanded for that period. I realize I don’t write the Frozen Tools column any longer but I still [...]
This week we are going to go through each team in the Western Conference and see which player on each roster has the most value per their contract and which player has the least. Some of the factors I've taken into account are the salary cap hit, length of contract (good or bad), age, current [...]
With the All-Star break just concluded, we will look at some players with notable production (both good and bad) from the start of this calendar year up until the break. We will look at ice time, faceoffs, hits, blocked shots, power-play time and any other interesting takeaways. Anaheim Trevor Zegras is starting to catch fire, [...]
We last looked at points per 60 minutes in a mid-November article, so this week we’re going to look at where players are at now on a team-by-team basis. I've tried to include some numbers from the 2021-22 season as well for comparative purposes. Johnny Gaudreau led the NHL last season with 4.5/60 followed by [...]
