Eastern Edge

This week’s Eastern Edge is the fourth part of a series looking at how players performed in new surroundings this season. We’ll discuss players that joined new teams ahead of the 2021-2022 regular season, as well as those that were traded during the campaign. The earlier parts of the series can be viewed here. Christian [...]

This week’s Eastern Edge is the third part of a series looking at how players performed in new surroundings this season. We’ll discuss players that joined new teams ahead of the 2021-2022 regular season, as well as those that were traded during the campaign. Previous editions of this series are available here. Claude Giroux The [...]

This week’s Eastern Edge is the second part of a series we started last week, looking at how players performed in new surroundings this season. Throughout this series, we’ll discuss players that joined new teams ahead of the 2021-2022 regular season, as well as those that were traded during the year. It’s timely that this [...]

This week’s Eastern Edge will be the first part of a series, where we look at how players fared in new surroundings this year. Over the next few weeks, we’ll discuss players that joined new teams ahead of the 2021-2022 regular season, as well as those that were traded during the campaign. Linus Ullmark The [...]

In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll discuss a few players to watch in round two of the 2021-2022 playoffs. Andrei Vasilevskiy Although he went up against a high-powered offense in round one, I don’t think anyone expected Vasilevskiy to hold a 3.04 GAA and .897 save percentage after his first seven starts of the 2021-2022 [...]

In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll look at a few players who fell short of expectations during the regular season. We’ll also evaluate their potential to bounce back for the 2022-2023 campaign. Last week we discussed second-half MVPs and what that could mean for next season as well. Brendan Gallagher After scoring at a 30-goal [...]

In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll look at each team’s fantasy MVP from the second half. Since I released my list of first-half MVPs on January 25th, the ‘second half’ referred to in this article runs from January 25th to May 1st. When I think about value in fantasy hockey, I think about players who [...]

In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll look at a few players who bounced back from disappointing performances last year to have strong showings this year. These are guys that we generally think of good-to-elite but had to rebound and have in a strong way. Jeff Skinner Skinner’s fantasy value hit rock-bottom after last year’s career-worst [...]

In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll discuss players to keep an eye on during this final stretch of the regular season. These guys could see their fantasy value fluctuate going forward, so monitoring them closely will help you prepare for next year’s campaign and/or upcoming playoff pools. Boston Bruins – Erik Haula Haula had an [...]

In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll discuss players on teams with favourable schedules for this week’s fantasy playoff matchups. Buffalo Sabres The Sabres are one of nine teams that play four games between Tuesday and Sunday. More importantly, three of those games will be played against teams that have given up a lot of goals [...]