Jack Quinn made his return to the Buffalo lineup, and though it was a tough game for the team and Quinn was minus two, he did also add a shot and a hit in 15 minutes of ice time. He’s a big overall addition to help lengthen this already deep offensive lineup, and worth checking [...]
Let’s get the first thing out of the way here with the Blues relieving Craig Berube of Head Coaching duties and appointing Drew Bannister as interim HC: This is a flawed roster, and it was not necessarily something that Berube was doing poorly here. He had his warts, sure, but based on public opinion so [...]
Halfway through the Leafs/Rangers game I had one of my league-mates ask me what was wrong with Igor Shesterkin. Coincidentally I own Shesterkin in that league. Or perhaps it wasn’t and he was fishing to try and buy-low. Regardless, goalies are the epitome of small sample sizes, and we expect those to normalize faster than [...]
The NHL currently has the Board of Governor meetings ongoing, and this is where often the agenda looks dry, but sometimes there are some juicy nuggets dropped. Thus far there hasn’t been anything exceptional like the out-of-nowhere announcement a few years ago that the NHL was crowdsourcing interest in ticket sales in Las Vegas, but [...]
Some fun news yesterday with the return of Patrick Kane, signing a one-year deal in Detroit with a full no-movement-clause, and a cap hit of $2.75 million. He could line up with Alex DeBrincat and Dylan Larkin and be plugged into fantasy lineups immediately, though there is lots of reason for caution as well: https://twitter.com/Hockey_Robinson/status/1729520790297862349 [...]
As with the skaters, early-season numbers for the goalies aren’t causing an overreaction in the list here. Stuart Skinner looks like a great buy-low, with his three years remaining on a bargain deal. Meanwhile, Ilya Samsonov, Jeremy Swayman, and Carter Hart are all fighting (with varying success) for a big new contract this summer. If [...]
It’s early in the year, and this list doesn’t greatly overreact to the small sample size of the early part of the season. If someone like Travis Sanheim or Mason McTavish keep up their prolific scoring paces into the new year, then that’s where we really start to see the rankings move. In the meantime, [...]
With no games last night, and also none on the docket for Thursday (wouldn’t want to compete with American Thanksgiving football), this seems like a good time to take a look at the state of the league, upcoming schedules, and how to set yourself up the rest of the way. Ottawa’s only game of the [...]
Coming into last night’s games, the Vancouver Canucks trio of Quinn Hughes, Elias Pettersson, and J.T. Miller was tied for the league lead in scoring, with 26 points each. I’m not sure if that has ever happened before with a three-way tie for the league lead in scoring (past the first couple games of a [...]
I’m not sure when Charlie McAvoy is going to fully get his due as a top-five defenceman in the NHL, but he has been one for a while now. He had two assists last night to bring his season total to 11 points in 11 games. To boot, he’s dominant defensively, and is no slouch [...]
