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Eastern Edge: Sens Lines, Leafs/Jackets Trade, Habs Prospects, Ovie’s Last Season (Oct 6)

By Khurram Sher|2026-10-05T20:32:29-04:00October 6th, 2026|Eastern Edge|

In today’s article, we will take a quick look at early season developments for several Eastern Conference teams. Senators Line Combinations We start with the Ottawa Senators, who have been deploying newly acquired William Eklund on the top power play and on the second line with Dylan Cozens and Fabian Zetterlund. Zetterlund has played with [...]

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Eastern Edge: Assessing the Capitals’ Forward Group & Larkin’s Outlook

By Khurram Sher|2026-09-29T21:38:14-04:00September 30th, 2026|Eastern Edge|

There is a numbers crunch at the forward rank of the Washington Capitals. The most common lines we have seen in preseason and training camps have been as follows: Alex Ovechkin – Dylan Strome – Ryan Leonard Alex Tuch – Pierre-Luc Dubois – Tom Wilson Aliaksei Protas - Ilya Protas – Jordan Kyrou Boone Jenner [...]

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Eastern Edge: Kreider’s Upside in Montreal; Roles for Hedman and Mikheyev in Tampa Bay, and More

By Khurram Sher|2026-09-22T06:26:24-04:00September 22nd, 2026|Eastern Edge|

Over the past few years, the Anaheim Ducks have been populating the Eastern Conference with their former players: Jamie Drysdale, Trevor Zegras, Olen Zellweger, John Gibson, John Carlson (more on him later), Radko Gudas, and now Chris Kreider. The 35-year-old Kreider becomes the oldest player on the Montreal Canadiens, and will get paid a base [...]

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Eastern Edge: Predicting the Metropolitan Standings – Part 2

By Khurram Sher|2026-09-15T06:13:11-04:00September 15th, 2026|Eastern Edge|

The countdown to the top of the Metropolitan division started with the non-playoff teams that were discussed in Part 1. The final predictions for the rest of the division standings are revealed here. There are still roster shake ups possible as star players like Quinn Hughes and Connor Hellebuyck have been rumoured to go to [...]

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Eastern Edge: Predicting the Metropolitan Standings – Part 1

By Khurram Sher|2026-09-08T06:14:32-04:00September 8th, 2026|Eastern Edge|

The Metropolitan Division is home to the Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes who led the Eastern Conference with 113 points. Other than Carolina, no one else finished above 98 points. The pair of Pennsylvania teams out played their expectations, claiming the remaining playoff spots. Making projections difficult is that the 21 points separating 2nd place [...]

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Eastern Edge: Predicting the Atlantic Division Standings

By Khurram Sher|2026-09-01T04:57:31-04:00September 1st, 2026|Eastern Edge|

In 2025-26, it was exceedingly difficult to find success in the Atlantic Division as they had four 100-point teams, which was as many as the other three divisions combined. Each team also posted at least a .500 points percentage against the Western Conference, the only division where each team was at least .500 against the [...]

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Eastern Edge: Bubble Keeper Week and Evaluating Zegras, Miller, Batherson, Point, and Crosby

By Khurram Sher|2026-08-25T04:19:29-04:00August 25th, 2026|Eastern Edge|

For bubble keeper week we will go through some Eastern conference forwards and analyze some of their statistics to determine if they are worthy of a keeper spot. Of course, each league has different categories, sizes, and a variable number of keeper slots, so it is not a ‘one size fits all’ recommendation. Trevor Zegras [...]

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Eastern Edge: Improvement Potential for Ville Koivunen, Marco Kasper, and Calum Ritchie

By Khurram Sher|2026-08-18T05:30:30-04:00August 18th, 2026|Eastern Edge|

In last Tuesday’s Eastern Edge, we looked at a couple of lines in the Atlantic division that benefitted from an elevated 5v5 shooting percentage and ended up performing better than they should have. Today we will do the opposite and examine recent draft picks, sifting out some players who were mired in bad luck, with [...]

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Eastern Edge: Unsustainable Second Lines Including Zacha, Mittelstadt, Newhook, and Kapanen

By Khurram Sher|2026-08-11T07:27:34-04:00August 11th, 2026|Eastern Edge|

Today’s focus will be on two Atlantic division line combinations that significantly outperformed their baseline. All six of these players enjoyed a disproportionate level of success due to elevated luck-based metrics. We start in Boston with Pavel Zacha, who set personal highs of 30 goals, 65 points, 0.83 points per game, and 64% of power [...]

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Eastern Edge: Columbus Role Changes Under Head Coach Rick Bowness, Including Coyle, Fantilli, Voronkov, Severson, and More

By Khurram Sher|2026-08-04T06:41:24-04:00August 4th, 2026|Eastern Edge|

The Columbus Blue Jackets hired Rick Bowness on January 12, 2026, and one of the players who benefited from the new coach was center Charlie Coyle: His points per game increased significantly from 0.58 (26 points in 45 games) to 0.86 (32 points in 37 games). Before Bowness came on as coach, Coyle was only [...]

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