In today’s article, we will look at skaters that are struggling, as well as skaters that have started hot, and try to determine if which will regress to the norm or not. This will hopefully help elucidate some buy-low and sell-high candidates. Pete DeBoer is giving Kyle Palmieri a career high 75.5% of the New [...]
In today’s Eastern Edge we will look at buy low targets using power play data and focus on goaltender usage and performance for some Eastern Conference teams. For the latest on Western Conference goalies, make sure to check out yesterday’s Wild West article by Lucas Main: One way to target underperforming stars is to buy [...]
The Philadelphia Flyers have started the season 0-5-2 with a league-worst -20 goal differential. That is 11 straight losses going back to the second-round playoff sweep at the hands of the Carolina Hurricanes. Their expected goal differential is also the worst in the league (-13.44) but not as bad as their actual goal differential, because [...]
In today’s article, we will take a quick look at early season developments for several Eastern Conference teams. Senators Line Combinations We start with the Ottawa Senators, who have been deploying newly acquired William Eklund on the top power play and on the second line with Dylan Cozens and Fabian Zetterlund. Zetterlund has played with [...]
There is a numbers crunch at the forward rank of the Washington Capitals. The most common lines we have seen in preseason and training camps have been as follows: Alex Ovechkin – Dylan Strome – Ryan Leonard Alex Tuch – Pierre-Luc Dubois – Tom Wilson Aliaksei Protas - Ilya Protas – Jordan Kyrou Boone Jenner [...]
Over the past few years, the Anaheim Ducks have been populating the Eastern Conference with their former players: Jamie Drysdale, Trevor Zegras, Olen Zellweger, John Gibson, John Carlson (more on him later), Radko Gudas, and now Chris Kreider. The 35-year-old Kreider becomes the oldest player on the Montreal Canadiens, and will get paid a base [...]
The countdown to the top of the Metropolitan division started with the non-playoff teams that were discussed in Part 1. The final predictions for the rest of the division standings are revealed here. There are still roster shake ups possible as star players like Quinn Hughes and Connor Hellebuyck have been rumoured to go to [...]
The Metropolitan Division is home to the Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes who led the Eastern Conference with 113 points. Other than Carolina, no one else finished above 98 points. The pair of Pennsylvania teams out played their expectations, claiming the remaining playoff spots. Making projections difficult is that the 21 points separating 2nd place [...]
In 2025-26, it was exceedingly difficult to find success in the Atlantic Division as they had four 100-point teams, which was as many as the other three divisions combined. Each team also posted at least a .500 points percentage against the Western Conference, the only division where each team was at least .500 against the [...]
For bubble keeper week we will go through some Eastern conference forwards and analyze some of their statistics to determine if they are worthy of a keeper spot. Of course, each league has different categories, sizes, and a variable number of keeper slots, so it is not a ‘one size fits all’ recommendation. Trevor Zegras [...]
