One of the arguments against midseason international tournaments is the risk of players being injured in a tournament game. That threat came true for fantasy teams rostering Shea Theodore, as he will miss NHL regular-season games in addition to the rest of the tournament with a wrist injury. Add to that the fact that the [...]
Happy Super Bowl Sunday! (as well as Utah/Washington and Tampa Bay/Montreal). Saturday was also the last busy night before the 4 Nations, so hopefully you were able to make it count. - Igor Shesterkin will be out for 1-2 weeks with an upper-body injury. Normally that would be of concern, but he will use the [...]
Sidney Crosby was not in the Penguins’ lineup on Friday due to an upper-body injury. According to head coach Mike Sullivan, the team is "taking it one day at a time.” The Penguins play again today (Saturday), so Crosby has to be considered questionable for that game as well. If he does not play on [...]
Sidney Crosby was on the ice on Thursday, but he missed practice, avoiding shooting the puck while skating on his own. Crosby should be considered questionable for tonight’s (Friday’s) game against the Rangers after being hit by two Devils on Tuesday. Canadian hockey fans are crossing their fingers that Crosby will be ready for the [...]
Happy Groundhog Day! Hopefully today isn’t the start of six more weeks of misery for your fantasy team. After all, your fantasy playoffs might be six weeks away. Less than 24 hours after details of the Canucks-Rangers trade surfaced, J.T. Miller made a strong first impression in his return to the Rangers in Boston. Miller [...]
The much-anticipated J.T. Miller trade finally went down on Friday afternoon. The Canucks shipped Miller, Erik Brannstrom, and Jackson Dorrington to the Rangers for Filip Chytil, Victor Mancini, and a top-13 protected 2025 first-round pick. Was the return underwhelming for the Canucks? Absolutely. That shouldn’t be a surprise, though. Miller is on the wrong side [...]
The Vancouver Canucks have traded center J.T. Miller, defenseman Erik Brannstrom, and defenseman Jackson Dorrington to the New York Rangers for center Filip Chytil, defenseman Victor Mancini, and a top-13 protected 2025 first-round pick. The Rangers receive: Miller, a onetime Ranger who will turn 32 years old in March and has a cap hit of [...]
The Calgary Flames have traded forwards Jakob Pelletier, Andrei Kuzmenko, a 2025 second-round pick, and a 2028 seventh-round pick to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for forwards Joel Farabee and Morgan Frost. Frost, who is only 25 and has back-to-back 40-point seasons, gives the Flames the middle-6 center they are looking for. Mikael Backlund is [...]
Miro Heiskanen is being listed as week-to-week after taking a hit to his knee from Mark Stone in Tuesday’s game. Heiskanen has also been ruled out for the 4 Nations Face-Off in mid-February, which means that the earliest he would likely return would be later in February – nearly a month from now. But because [...]
The Avalanche could not promptly put the unexpected departure of Mikko Rantanen behind them in an early game on Saturday, losing 3-1 in Boston. Martin Necas’s Avalanche debut did not go as hoped results-wise, as he was held off the scoresheet while being tagged with a minus-3. The good news for those with Necas on [...]
