In his 39th NHL game, Zack Ostapchuk, the 39th pick of the 2021 draft, scored his first goal in the big leagues. He’s not getting enough ice time to be valuable in fantasy leagues this year but is averaging roughly two hits per game if you’re in the deepest of banger leagues. Heading into Sunday’s [...]
With a win against Seattle on Sunday, Detroit’s record under Todd McLellan improves to 7-1. They’ve scored a power-play goal in all eight of those games, converting on 14 of 28 opportunities during this stretch. With a goal against the Kraken, Alex DeBrincat’s point streak grows to seven games. He has six goals and 11 [...]
The Kings placed Arthur Kaliyev on waivers Sunday. Drafted 33rd overall in 2019, the now 23-year-old forward didn’t see a whole lot of opportunity in LA, averaging roughly 12 minutes a night over the past three seasons. I think this is a case of a talented player not fitting into a team’s system, and I [...]
Mathew Barzal returned to the lineup after missing six weeks with an upper-body injury. There was certainly rust to shake off as some of his passes lacked the quality we’ve come to expect from him. Through roughly 21 minutes of action, Barzal posted two shots, two hits, four faceoff wins and was a minus-2. He [...]
Colorado finally made a big move to address their goaltending woes. On Monday afternoon, the Avalanche sent Alexandar Georgiev and Nikolai Kovalenko to San Jose in exchange for Mackenzie Blackwood and Givani Smith. The Avalanche also gave up a second-round pick in next year’s draft, as shown below. https://twitter.com/Avalanche/status/1866215561056710678 Givani Smith is a physical player [...]
Sincerest sympathies to anyone who trusted the usually reliable Jonathan Quick for a spot start on Sunday. After allowing just four goals across his first five outings, Quick has allowed 15 in his last three. Igor Shesterkin didn’t dress for the game because his wife was in labour, but I imagine he’ll be available for [...]
Jake DeBrusk had a sensational Sunday, scoring the overtime winner against Detroit to complete the second hat trick of his career. The 28-year-old winger started heating up after J.T. Miller took a leave of absence on November 19th, racking up nine points in six games since then. Notably, four of those points came with the [...]
On Sunday, the Blues fired head coach Drew Bannister and replaced him with Jim Montgomery – who the Bruins had fired five days ago. Read Ian’s take on the fantasy implications of this move here. ~ Fortunately, the lower-body injury which kept Kirill Kaprizov out of Saturday’s clash with Calgary doesn’t seem serious. He’s [...]
Carolina, who averages the most shots for and the fewest against, experienced a rarity on Sunday as they were outshout by the Blues. Still, they pulled out a 4-1 victory over St. Louis. Pyotr Kochetkov had a strong showing, stopping 29 of the 30 shots he faced. Kochetkov has been better when busy this season. [...]
With today being Veterans Day in the US and Remembrance Day in Canada, we have an early game scheduled for 12:30 PM EST between the Habs and Sabres, so make sure to set your lineups in advance! ~ Valeri Nichushkin will be back in the lineup this week, set to make his season debut on [...]
