Capped

This week's Capped covers some names who are impressing in the first quarter, as well as having a contract worth pursuing in Cap leagues. **** December is almost here, meaning that NHL teams can take a look in the mirror and actually have something meaningful to reflect on. The NHL standings never seem to change [...]

This week's Capped reviews the key aspects of making a blockbuster trade in a cap league, building off of last week. **** As I stated in last week’s article, “around mid-November is the time I find second-most active in trade markets, behind only trade-deadline week”. Over the last 10 days, I have pulled off two [...]

This week's Capped reviews the key aspects of making a blockbuster trade in a cap league. **** There have not been many transactions of note in the last week in the cap world, so we look elsewhere for topics this week. At this point in time, we are around the quarter mark of the season. [...]

This week's Capped analyzes the last week in hockey, discussing what changed for cap league managers. **** After having to write up covering the “big” deal between Detroit and Pittsburgh two weeks ago that saw fourth line players and draft picks swapped, Sunday’s blockbuster three-way deal was quite refreshing. The hockey world is still trying [...]

      This week's Capped looks into some rookies burning a year off of their entry deals, and what fantasy managers should expect moving forward.   Every year the NHL seems to be getting younger. Maybe it’s true, or maybe it’s just that they stay the same age while we keep getting older. Either [...]

Saturday saw the first trade of the 2017-2018 season that didn’t involve a goalie. While the deal wasn’t big enough for there to be a fantasy write-up, there is still a lot that we can take out of the trade as cap league owners. The trade saw Detroit send underperforming centre Riley Sheahan and a [...]

Early season results are great for overreactions to small sample sizes. Toronto putting Mitch Marner on the fourth line, Cam Talbot having a couple of bad games, Jamie Benn and Tyler Seguin combining for fewer total points than Alex Ovechkin has goals. What do these things all have in common? They aren’t going to last [...]

I hope all of the Canadian readers had a great Thanksgiving. Unfortunately for the Americans, there is still over a month to wait before you will be eating more than your fair share of turkey, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie. In the meantime, let’s recap a few players who have a lot more to be [...]

Christmas is finally here! Or at least as close as we can come to Christmas in October. Last night we got a nice gift with some fun games to watch, but all that happens now is that we are looking for more. With the start of the season, if it so happens that you have [...]

This hockey season cannot come fast enough, so why don’t we make ourselves a little more impatient by looking into which youngsters/underappreciated players are going to be breaking camp with the big club. While we’re at it, we’ll go through a little bit about why they may actually be put in a position to succeed [...]