Some players had great starts to the season and have since faded and others had slow starts and have come on in November. We will look at some of the most intriguing Western Conference players who have taken off in November or fallen off a cliff. Hopefully, this will help a few people contemplating dropping [...]
I’ve long held the belief that Corsi is a bit of a flawed stat, which has been unfair for players who have offensive zone starts (OZ%) below 40 percent. As of games to November 20th, there were 116 players who had OZ starts below 40 percent. Of those 116 players only 14 players had a [...]
This week we are going to look at players from each team in the West and see who are the leaders in points per 60 minutes. There are a few surprising players here who could be available in some pools. I’ve tried to include some numbers from the 2021-22 season as well for comparative purposes. [...]
The Western Conference is dominating the league with the man advantage as they have eight of the top-nine teams on the power play at the moment. On the flip side, they have eight of the bottom 10 teams with the worst penalty kill as well. I wanted to go through each team and see what [...]
Yes, it is early and some of these players will fall back into the middle of the pack of their team, but these are the players who have emerged as the best player on their roster to date. Conversely, we are also looking at the most disappointing player to date from each team as well [...]
I’m going to assume that every NHL team and city has a whipping boy or two on their rosters. This is the player who rightly or wrongly is singled out most nights, for lack of effort, lack of production, giving the puck away, losing a check, or a crappy game Corsi. Since I live in [...]
Now that the regular season has commenced, we are going to look at each team and focus on some key players, new players and each team's power play so far. It is very early, so things will change but early success can be a good sign of things to come. Anaheim Ducks Early ice time [...]
A core three is what I would consider the three players in an organization who the team should build around. The best teams in the NHL have six or seven players that we could put as that team's core three. Some teams it seems like we are scraping three players together and these are probably [...]
This will be the fourth season in which I will attempt to narrow down some of the top rookies for the upcoming season but this year I’m only going to focus on the Western Conference. Dobber has his top 50 list and Ben Gehrels looks at his Calder candidates in the 2022-23 Guide. Most years, [...]
Now that we have tiered the goalies and defensemen for the West and East, it is time to move on to the forwards. I will start with the Western Conference below. There are a lot more forwards than defense, so we will only expand on the first five tiers this week. Tier 1 Connor McDavid [...]
