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 [...]
In July 2024, I wrote about players I thought could be on the trade block for each team in the West (link here). I thought we could re-visit each team and see which of those players have been traded and if there are some players who should be added to the list. Expecting the unexpected [...]
With the first half done, we will look at some of the players in the West who have exceeded expectations with what people had going into 2024-25. I will avoid looking at rookies and blue-chip prospects in their second or third seasons as they are a different category altogether. These are players who you might [...]
I thought we could see if there are any players at the halfway point from the Western Conference who are in the running for some of the major league awards at the end of the year. We will look at the Calder, Norris, Art Ross, Rocket Richard, Vezina and the Hart Memorial trophies and make [...]
This week we are going to look at some players in the West who might have been drafted with aspirations of being 30-story towers with two-story penthouses but might only be two-story walk ups. I’m going to focus on players aged from 23 to 25 who were 1st or early 2nd round draft picks, as [...]
Happy Holidays and an early Happy New Year! I thought it would be interesting to see what player(s) (prospects) each team in the Western Conference had in this year's WJC. Hopefully, this might help you get an update on some of your prospects or give you a heads up on some available ones in your [...]
I am pinch-hitting in the Ramblings today for Brennan DeSouza who is on a well-deserved holiday break. It is a busy time of year, but the NHL will be taking a break with no games from December 24th through December 26th. Sunday Review Clayton Keller led all skaters on Sunday with four points in Utah’s [...]
I’m going to look at players from each team in the Western Conference and see what skaters have dropped or gone up a tier or two this season (2024-25) compared to last season (2023-24). These are tiers I’ve just made up for this article so please don’t confuse this with other Tiers you have seen [...]
Today, we are going to go through each team in the Western Conference to see which players made any of Team Canada, USA, Sweden or Finland for the 4-Nations Face Off happening in February 2025. The tournament is a round-robin of three games with the top two teams playing in a one game final. It [...]
