The Minnesota Wild are on a tear right now, or at least heading into Wednesday night’s action. After going 1-4-1 right out of the All-Star break, the team is 15-1-4 in their last 20 games and are a threat to win the division. That is largely without Kirill Kaprizov, though he should be back for [...]
One of the concerns for any team interested in acquiring Jakob Chychrun over the last couple of seasons was his health. This will make five straight 82-game seasons where he’s failed to reach 70 games played (though he did play the entire 56-game Bubble campaign). Those concerns came up again recently as he missed a [...]
Once the details of what happened to Washington defenceman John Carlson a few months ago, just seeing him back on the ice with the Capitals in practice was great to see. On Thursday night, he made his return to the lineup, playing on a pairing with Martin Fehervary. It is just nice to see a [...]
This is the time of year where college seasons have wrapped and players are starting to sign with their NHL teams. Most of these guys will have no relevance in the fantasy game at any point of their careers, but they are worth noting because a gem is found every once in a while like [...]
The Montreal Canadiens are 1-7-2 in their last 10 games as the team’s slide has started in earnest. It is hard to blame the roster as the team was thin at the outset of the season, and injuries to Brendan Gallagher, Cole Caufield, Saen Monahan, Jake Evans, and Juraj Slafkovsky only made it worse. They [...]
One thing Montreal made it a priority to do under the new management regime is load up the blue line. Justin Barron a key piece of the Artturi Lehkonen trade, they grabbed Jonathan Kovacevic off waivers (more on him later), they traded for Mike Matheson, and brought in Arber Xhekaj (and there's still Lane Huston [...]
Heading into Monday night’s game against Toronto, the Buffalo Sabres had lost six of their last seven games, going 1-5-1 in that stretch. They had games in hand on the teams above them, and still do, but they’re now seven points back of a playoff spot and even winning all the games in hand they [...]
With Alex Tuch out of the Buffalo lineup, the team had been going with Jack Quinn alongside Tage Thompson in recent games. The acquisition of Jordan Greenway raised some eyebrows, given Greenway’s history with Buffalo coach Don Granato, and the raised-eyebrow people had reason as the deadline addition was moved to the top line for [...]
Perhaps the least-discussed injury of the season is that of Washington defenceman John Carlson. He hasn’t played since Christmas thanks to a puck to the head, and that put a strain on the entire lineup. Up until his injury, Washington was 13th by expected goal share at 5-on-5, 14th by overall goal share and ahead [...]
For all the bellyaching I’ve done about the NHL’s playoff format – and it does need to be changed – we went into Monday night’s action with a little over five weeks left and the East had six teams within four points of each other for two playoff spots. Some have more games played than [...]
