I’m standing in for the Ramblings for the second week in a row and as there were just two games on Sunday, I thought I’d breakdown both of them. Anaheim has been playing well in 2023-2024 and hit their peak to this point with a 4-2 win over the Vegas Golden Knights after scoring four [...]
The good news for Edmonton and Calgary was that one of them was going to come out of Sunday’s Heritage Classic with a much-needed victory. In the end, the Oilers won 5-2 and more importantly for them, Connor McDavid returned to the lineup after missing two games, Evander Kane had a goal and two assists [...]
This week I’m going to look at each team in the West and pick some players who have stood out positively and perhaps negatively after just a few games. See Part 1 here. Nashville Predators Alexandre Carrier seems to be back to the level that he was from 2021-22. He has two assists in six [...]
This week I’m going to look at each team in the West and pick some players who have stood out positively and perhaps negatively after just a few games. Anaheim Ducks Pavel Mintyukov is still only 19 years old but has already scored his first NHL goal and has two points in five games. He’s [...]
It is very early in the 2023-24 season, but we can see which players from each team have been given opportunities on the first or second unit of the power play. Some teams split 50/50, others 60/40 and some 80/20 like the Edmonton Oilers. Most NHL teams tend to operate with 4F/1D on the power [...]
This year, because it is such a deep crop of rookies, I’m going to list the top rookies by team in the Western Conference. Some of these players could start the year in the minors because of waiver exemptions and salary cap implications but it appears that most rosters have now been set. We will [...]
Now that we have tiered the goalies and defensemen for the West, it is time to move on to the forwards. There are a lot more forwards than defense, so we will focus on just the first five or six tiers. Tier McDavid Connor McDavid – Edmonton Oilers – McDavid was my only player in [...]
This week and next, Brennan Des and I will tier defense and forwards from the East and West. I will start with the West today on defense but just a reminder that these tiers are subjective and meant as a guide to help you for fantasy purposes, not necessarily the level of skill of each [...]
Last year we had some confusion, so just to be clear we will only be listing goalies from the Western Conference below. Last year I didn’t have one goalie in the West who I deemed to be in the 1A Tier and only had one (Juuse Saros) in the 1B tier. These tiers are a [...]
I thought I would look at each team in the West and see what the ceiling was for fantasy for points, goals, shots on goal and hits. There are some teams who top out at 30 goals, 60 points, 200 SOG and 150 hits, while others 60 goals, 150 points, 350 SOG and 325 hits. [...]
