It looked as if Ottawa would have an excellent top-6 forward group heading into the season thanks to the development of their prospects and adding Alex DeBrincat and Claude Giroux. Unfortunately, Josh Norris injured his shoulder just five games into the season and that left them rotating centers on the second line for several weeks. [...]
There was a lot of injury news that came throughout Thursday so we’re going to take time going through the notable names. First and foremost, Pittsburgh defenceman Kris Letang has been out of action because of the stroke he suffered last week. There is very good news on this front: https://twitter.com/TaylorHaasePGH/status/1600880690547015682 I can understand the [...]
There are a few teams dealing with a slew of injures and the Philadelphia Flyers are one of them. They are still without Sean Couturier, Ryan Ellis, and Cam Atkinson, to name a few, but James van Riemsdyk returned to the lineup on Wednesday night. He had five points in six games before he was [...]
There was a lot of news concerning the Columbus Blue Jackets on Monday, both good and bad, so let’s get to the important parts. First off, with the team going through injuries both up front and on the blue line, more help from the AHL was necessary. Columbus decided to recall winger Kirill Marchenko: [...]
Kris Letang missed Tuesday night’s game for Pittsburgh with what the team said was an illness. He wasn’t on the ice for practice on Wednesday and missing that kind of time with an illness made me think he had whatever is going on with Aleksander Barkov. Unfortunately, it seems a lot more serious than that: [...]
Likely the biggest story surrounding the Minnesota Wild heading into this season was the anticipated performances from Matt Boldy and Marco Rossi. With the team so cap-strung thanks to the buyouts of Zach Parise and Ryan Suter, and losing Kevin Fiala as a result, they needed these young potential stars to step up in a [...]
There is a lot of data to sift through in the fantasy hockey realm. Just perusing our Frozen Tools alone can have someone lost for hours, creating their own reports and parameters to see who is performing well, who isn’t, signs of regression, changes in usage, or a whole slew of other reasons. One data [...]
One thing that had plagued the Carolina Hurricanes for years was a lack of steady goaltending. That has changed in recent seasons with the additions of Antti Raanta and Frederik Andersen. Both of those guys are free agents after the 2022-23 season, though, so the team needs to look to the future. They did that [...]
It has been a much better start to the season than many hockey fans were anticipating for the Philadelphia Flyers as they are on pace for over 80 points (as of Monday afternoon, more on their Monday night game later) and that was without Ryan Ellis and Sean Couturier all year. The injuries have just [...]
Heading into Wednesday night’s game against Buffalo, Ottawa had been on a 1-6-1 skid, allowing 35 goals in those eight games. Something had to give with the lineup and the first solution seems to be Drake Batherson being dropped to the third line: https://twitter.com/TSN1200/status/1592903674132471809 We should note that in this downturn, no regular Ottawa forward [...]
