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Wild West: The Top-10 Multi-Category Defensemen for 2017-18

By |2017-07-31T08:39:08-04:00July 31st, 2017|The Wild West|

Just which defensemen are tops in fantasy depends on your league. It’s a very close call for many. Sometimes top scorers have poor plus/minus, penalty, hits or blocked shots stats rendering them less valuable in multi-category leagues. There is frequent overlap though, as the top ones often excel at many facets of the game. I’ll [...]

Wild West: Best Goalies in the West

By |2017-07-24T10:06:13-04:00July 24th, 2017|The Wild West|

In traditional Internet journalistic fashion here’s a top-11 countdown of next year’s fantasy goalies in the Western Conference. Your opinions will vary. There are others wholly worth mentioning, but we’ll save those for a future column on sleepers, bargain buys and prospects so I can pick them up myself before my Dobber Prospects League opponents [...]

The Wild West – Free Agency Breakdown: Pacific Division

By |2017-07-17T12:46:39-04:00July 17th, 2017|The Wild West|

  The free-agent market brought both surprises and predictable signings, along some salary cap adjustments and a few related trades and other transactions. In the second of a two-part piece, let’s take a look at how new free-agent additions have altered the Pacific Division, emphasizing points-only pool production with some peripheral considerations.   [...]

Free Agency Moves – Central Division

By |2017-07-10T08:07:10-04:00July 10th, 2017|The Wild West|

The free agent market has brought a few surprises and some predictable signings, along with much salary cap adjustment, and a few related trades and other transactions. In the first of a two-part piece, let’s take a look at how free agency has altered the Western Conference’s Central Division, emphasizing points-only pool production with some [...]

Wild West Draft Recap: A Focus on the Golden Knights and Discussion of The West

By |2017-06-26T09:40:00-04:00June 26th, 2017|The Wild West|

After all the expansion prognosticating and endless mock entry drafts the results are in. Again, we remember that, while we might (?) have sound logic and hockey knowledge we’re rarely going to nail the vast majority of picks. Many had the Golden Knights going for more of a win-now scheme than building for the future. [...]

2017 Offseason Outlook: Nashville and Chicago

By |2017-06-19T08:23:48-04:00June 19th, 2017|The Wild West|

Leading up to the NHL Entry Draft we’ve been examining each Western Conference squad’s offseason priorities, emphasizing points-only pool production with some peripheral considerations, and highlighting potential breakout candidates. We started in the cellar points-wise and are moving up as we go. We’ll tackle Vegas shortly after the expansion and entry drafts. Last week was [...]

2017 Offseason Outlook: Anaheim and Minnesota

By |2017-06-12T07:59:36-04:00June 12th, 2017|The Wild West|

Following the draft lottery, we’ve been examining each Western Conference squad’s offseason priorities, emphasizing points-only pool production with some peripheral considerations and highlighting potential breakout candidates. We started in the cellar points-wise and are moving up as we go. We’ll tackle Vegas shortly after the June expansion draft. Last week was St. Louis and Edmonton. [...]

2017 Offseason Outlook: St. Louis and Edmonton

By |2017-06-05T14:51:29-04:00June 5th, 2017|The Wild West|

Following the draft lottery, we’ve been examining each Western Conference squad’s offseason priorities, emphasizing points-only pool production with some peripheral considerations and highlighting potential breakout candidates. We started in the cellar points-wise and are moving up as we go. We’ll tackle Vegas shortly after the June expansion draft. Last week was San Jose and Calgary. [...]

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