I wrote an article in March 2023 which looked at members of the 100 Hits/100 BLKS club leading to the end of last season. In this article, we are going to look at potential members of the club from each team in the West for 2023-2024. Hopefully, it will help out a few people with [...]
This week we are going to look at some notable players who will be playing in the Western Conference for the first time. We will also list some players who have been added to the same teams in a similar situation in prior years and see how they have done. Some players struggle on a [...]
This week we will look at the final four teams in the West after we reviewed Minnesota, Nashville, San Jose and Seattle last week, Colorado, Dallas, Edmonton and Los Angeles the week before and Anaheim, Arizona, Calgary and Chicago here. Brennan Des is doing the same thing with the Eastern Conference here. Erik Karlsson was [...]
This week we will look at the following four teams in the West after we reviewed Colorado, Dallas, Edmonton and Los Angeles last week and Anaheim, Arizona, Calgary and Chicago the week before. Brennan Des is doing the same thing with the Eastern Conference here. The Core Four are the players from each roster, who [...]
Over the last few seasons, during bubble week I have focused on the format I know and that is a 25-team salary cap ($83.5 million) keeper pool with 27 players on each roster (20 active and seven in reserve, but all salaries count). As it is the off-season, we allow each team to carry 28 [...]
This week we will look at the next four teams in the West after we reviewed Anaheim, Arizona, Calgary and Chicago last week. The Core Four are the players from each roster, who should be the foundation for their team to build off of over the next three to five years. Colorado Avalanche Nathan MacKinnon [...]
I’m filling in for Alex Mclean today and have a few topics that I wanted to touch on today. I did speak about player valuations in my Wild West column last week, but I wanted to expand on it a little here. Some of the questions I had were: What teams are getting the best value [...]
This week we will begin our look at the Core Four of every NHL team with myself in the Western Conference and Brennan Des covering the Eastern Conference with the Eastern Edge column. I’ve done Core Three for a few years but this will be the first time I've done four players for each team. [...]
For Part 1, click here. While Alex Mclean and others have their predicted salaries and terms for what free agents might sign for, I wanted to come up with a performative salary number for an individual or a team’s salary value that they had for a particular time frame. The idea was to see if [...]
While Alex Mclean and others have their predicted salaries and terms for what free agents might sign for, I wanted to come up with a performative salary number for an individual or a team’s salary value that they had for a particular time frame. The idea was to see if the salary or cap that [...]
