Capped

Now that we’ve gotten through the NHL All-Star break, hockey is back and I couldn’t be happier. At this point in the season we start hearing more and more trade rumors surrounding potential rental players, what teams are looking in terms of the direction they’ll approach at the deadline and whether they’re buyers or sellers, [...]

In this edition of Capped, I plan on discussing some of the league’s premier youngsters, mainly the ones who are eligible to win the Calder Trophy, which is awarded to the best rookie of the season. I spoke about a few rookies back in November as well, touching on Matty Beniers of Seattle, Calen Addison [...]

I think once a month or so I will do an article about players I consider valuable waiver wire pickups. Things in consideration when looking at names to pick up off waivers would include points within the last 10 games (shows some level of consistency), average time on ice (ATOI shows their likelihood of being [...]

With the new year upon us, I opted to take this time to write about some of the players that signed with new teams during the 2022 offseason and see how they’re doing on their new contracts alongside new faces – as well as the big names that got traded during the summer. The players [...]

Last week I discussed some valuable waiver wire options, but with this being around the halfway point in the fantasy season, now is the time to sort of realize where your team should be with respect to making the playoffs or trying to acquire the best draft pick possible. With making that decision, now is [...]

Waiver wire transactions are the thing that can be the saving grace to your season. Some players find their way here after a slow start, an injury, a line change, etc, but like the old saying goes, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Given the nature of how fantasy sports work and how some [...]

With every surprise or huge performance that we get to witness throughout the regular season, we are also met with an equal number of disappointing performances as well. There are plenty of things that can lead to some unsettling productions, some of which can be being on a new team, being shifted up and down [...]

Every year NHL teams have the young players emerge while on their entry-level deals to become effective contributors for their respective squad. This year is not different, there is no shortage of excellent rookie players across the NHL. Whether the player went first overall or fifteenth overall, players find a way to produce given their [...]

This week’s article is going to be centered around potential waiver wire additions that you can explore to help mitigate the damage of a big injury, to kickstart some production on a slumping team, and realistically some of the players on the waiver wire are potential trade chips.What makes a player a good waiver wire [...]

Last week I discussed some of the bigger injuries that were occurring in the NHL and how you could take advantage of their injuries. This week we shall be looking at some of the bigger surprises that the NHL has seen so far, this upcoming season. Every season we have some players who are seemingly [...]