Eastern Edge

Carolina now leads the conference, Washington continues to skyrocket, the Flyers surge past .500 and Pittsburgh continues to struggle. Let’s check in on our Eastern Conference. All stats and records are up to date as of Monday afternoon.   Carolina Hurricanes // 13-4-0 // L7 Days: 3-1-0 Martin Necas cannot be stopped. He’s completely overshadowing [...]

Welcome to the Eastern Edge, the landscape of the Eastern Conference has changed shape quite a bit over the last week. Carolina has jumped into the top three teams, Toronto is on a three-game winning streak without Auston Matthews, and Buffalo is now tied for the final Wild Card spot.  Florida Panthers // 11-3-1 // [...]

Welcome to the Eastern Edge, the landscape of the Eastern Conference has changed shape quite a bit over the last week. Carolina has jumped to the top, Washington is among the best, and Montreal continues to slide. Let’s look at the teams and what has changed (or not).  Florida Panthers // 9-3-1 // L7 Days: [...]

Welcome to another edition of the Eastern Edge — coming to you from the Dominican Republic. The family and I are on vacation but that hasn’t stopped the East from changing shape. Let’s break down some trends in the Eastern Conference:Florida Panthers // 7-3-1 // L7 Days: 3-1-0 Alexander Barkov is back, and Anton Lundell [...]

Hello everyone, TJ Branson here taking over the Eastern Edge column. As I get accustomed to this space, forthcoming articles will be focused on updates and changes. Today I want to set a sort of baseline with which to begin my take on this column. We’re almost to the ten game mark in the NHL [...]

The injury bug is already getting frisky, contracts are being signed, and young players on the rise are getting their first chance on the NHL stage after cracking lineups out of training camp - hockey is all the way back. Unless the weather continues to have an impact, tonight’s NHL board features three juicy matchups, [...]

Major injury news, contract negotiations (or a lack thereof), line shuffling, roster tinkering, and of course, regular season hockey - we are SO back, baby! Welcome inside the latest iteration of Eastern Edge, a weekly fantasy hockey column that serves up all of the top news permeating the NHL’s Eastern Conference that fantasy GMs need [...]

A few weeks back we took a look at some of our favourite under-the-radar-type fantasy hockey targets primed for sneaky-good seasons that other GMs could be sleeping on or overlooking. Players that might not be getting a lot of shine or playing time but that could still serve as valuable peripheral pieces to round out [...]

Last week we dissected the Atlantic Division, ranking each team based on expected finish in the upcoming 2024-25 NHL campaign with this week’s Eastern Edge featuring the same process but for the Metropolitan. No disrespect to the Central or Pacific divisions, but there are a lot of improved young clubs on the rise in both [...]

It’s been almost three months since we last took a look at the best teams in the Eastern Conference and power ranked them by division. Considering how much money changed hands and bodies moved cities since July 1, we felt it was the perfect time to revisit our rankings and provide an updated order of [...]