Eastern Edge

In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll finish discussing how certain players fared in their first season with a new team. This is the third of three parts. If there’s a big name you don’t see here, we may have covered them in part one or two. Matthew Tkachuk Calgary had one of the league’s top [...]

In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll continue our discussion of how certain players performed in their first season with a new team. This is the second of three parts. If there’s a big name you don’t see here, we might have covered them last week, or we might discuss them next week.  Johnny Gaudreau Gaudreau’s [...]

In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll see how certain players performed in their first season with a new team. This will be the first of three parts, so if there’s a big name you don’t see here, we’ll probably cover them in the upcoming weeks. Vitek Vanecek Vanecek’s third year in the league and first [...]

In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll continue our discussion of how changes in deployment affected production this season. Be sure to check out part one, where we discussed Alex DeBrincat, Sam Reinhart and Bryan Rust.   Travis Konecny In his first season under the supervision of coach John Tortorella, Konecny was trusted with 20 minutes of [...]

In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll take a look at how changes in deployment affected the production of a few players. This will be the first of two parts as we’ll continue the discussion with a few more players next week. Alex DeBrincat Over his final two seasons with Chicago, DeBrincat scored at a point-per-game [...]

In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll discuss strong individual performances from players on non-playoff teams. Buffalo Sabres – Casey Mittelstadt During an exciting season in which Buffalo narrowly missed the playoffs, we saw many strong individual performances from the Sabres. The top trio of Alex Tuch, Tage Thompson and Jeff Skinner thrived, with each player [...]

In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll look at heroes and zeroes from each team in round one. Special thanks to Ryan Brudner (@fantasycheddar) who did an amazing job with the column while I was away last month! Boston Bruins Heroes: Tyler Bertuzzi & Dmitry Orlov Boston’s trade deadline acquisitions were incredibly productive during the postseason. [...]

Eastern Edge: Analyzing Surprise Performances in the East, Outlooks for Next Season including Auston Matthews, Tage Thompson, and more. I’m going to take a look at some of the biggest surprise fantasy performances from this season and provide some outlook on what to expect next year. This will include positive and negative surprises. I’ll refrain [...]

It’s award season! Well, it’s actually playoff hockey season which started out with a bang last night. It’s not a bad time to look back at the fantasy hockey season that was and give out some awards though. I’ll also toss in some outlook for next season as well. Hope you enjoy! Fantasy MVP Centre [...]

Maximizing your games played I will always be an advocate for being able to maximize games played in fantasy hockey. Quantity is better than quality when it comes to streamer-level skaters. I probably don’t need to convince many of you of this, but let’s take a look at an example: Here are Player A’s average [...]