Eastern Edge

In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll look at widely rostered players who have underperformed in the past month (since March 1st). We’ve reached a point of the fantasy campaign where name-value becomes meaningless, and loyalty goes out the window. Don’t be afraid to drop some of your big-name players if they’ve gone cold for a [...]

Monday marked the beginning of an important week for most fantasy hockey leagues. Many leagues begin their playoffs this week, while playoff qualification and seeding may be on the line in other leagues. Either way, having a good showing this week could go a long way in securing your league’s fantasy hockey championship. So, in [...]

In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll continue looking at skaters who have bounced back from underwhelming starts. In last week’s article (which covered skaters from Boston to New Jersey) we focused on first-half and second-half splits. I decided to be more lenient with the timeframes in this week’s edition so that we could include a [...]

In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll discuss notable performances from the month of February. Keep in mind that as far as the schedule was concerned, it was an uneven month for most teams involved. Some played as few as six, some as many as 12.   Toronto’s Top Trio February was a great month for [...]

The Canadiens made a coaching change on February 9th, relieving Dominique Ducharme of his duties and appointing Martin St. Louis as the team’s interim head coach. It was a necessary move as the team looked listless all season, winning eight of their 45 games under Ducharme while averaging a league-worst 3.98 goals against and 2.20 [...]

In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll look at a few hot streaks around the conference. If you want to see a longer list of players riding highs, as well as those stuck in lows, Dobber’s Frozen Tools are an invaluable resource. Bryan Rust Across the league, nobody has more points than Bryan Rust in 2022. [...]

In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll discuss waiver wire options from the Islanders and Senators – two teams with lots of games left on their schedules. New York Islanders The Islanders have played just 39 games to date, leaving them with a league-leading 43 games left to play. They’ll be much busier than others in [...]

In this week's Eastern Edge, we'll look at each team’s most disappointing fantasy player at the halfway mark. Not all teams have a clear-cut candidate for this list, so hopefully you’ll forgive me for grasping at straws in certain cases. Some teams also have more than one, so we had to cut down in other [...]

In this week's Eastern Edge, we'll look at the midseason fantasy MVP from each team in the Eastern Conference. When I think about value in fantasy hockey, I think about players who have outperformed expectations. So, this article isn't necessarily a list of each team's best player or leading scorer. Instead, I tried to consider [...]

In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll look at players who have quietly had strong starts to 2022. Jeff Skinner Skinner has five goals and one assist through six appearances in 2022. During this stretch, he’s spent most of his minutes beside Tage Thompson and Alex Tuch, who each have four points through four games in [...]