With the draft lottery in the recent past now, the world championships underway, and the NHL playoffs not even half over, there aren’t many eyes already turned to July first. However, as I always do in the spring, I have my final list of projected annual cap hits for each of the top-100 free agents. [...]
The NHL’s draft lottery yesterday was anti-climactic, with the San Jose Sharks winning the first overall selection, and the Chicago Blackhawks winning the second overall pick – exactly where they were slotted before the lottery. That means no teams changed position, not even Detroit, who always seems to find a way to drop. https://twitter.com/wyshynski/status/1787979897362637252 It’s [...]
One of my friends asked me if I thought Steven Stamkos was going to retire. To me it seems like a ridiculous notion, but I can see where that discourse has come from. For a player in his mid-30s, who has won two cups, played a lot of hard hockey over the last few years, [...]
The Rangers have been the better team thus far, but the Capitals are hanging around and still haven’t lost at home yet. With the makeup of their team, the Capitals really need to get the matchup game right to have a chance at climbing back into the series. Especially if Jack Roslovic is making shots [...]
As an Eastern time zone dweller, the playoff seeding in the West being decided by the last two games of the season which are 10pm and 10:30pm starts is not ideal. I wanted to go through a couple of quick thoughts on each series here, and I will update this section sometime Friday morning. Carolina [...]
After spending yesterday afternoon finalizing a car deal and driving it off the lot, I am reminded how similar car shopping is to fantasy sports. Between the research, the bargaining, and making sure that all the rules/guidelines have been read and understood, I think my fantasy experience served me well. * The lottery luck was [...]
Jack Hughes missed last night’s game, and it’s now confirmed that he’s done for the season. He finishes the campaign with 74 points in 62 games, which is just shy of a 100-point-pace. That’s his third season in a row pacing between 94 and 104 points, which would seem to be his production wheelhouse. However, [...]
I know Brennan mentioned Jamie Benn yesterday, but I also wanted to touch on him as someone that has been a huge piece of helping one of my teams into the fantasy finals this week, with his scoring revival of seven goals across a six-game scoring streak from mid- to late-March. Last year’s 76-point-pace is [...]
The East playoff race is not exactly an arms race at the moment, but it is certainly fascinating. The Capitals were supposed to be done two months ago, and were too far out. Instead, after being sellers at the deadline, they’re getting balanced scoring, their top players are producing, and the young guys all look [...]
As we stare down a potentially active goalie market in the NHL, we’re left with the smoke but not much fire from the trade deadline, where we did see a few goalies change teams, but no one likely to make a huge difference fantasy-wise at this point. Logan Thompson reigns as the top value goalie [...]
