Chris Kane checks in every Friday to dig deep on players of interest in fantasy circles. He walks you through the various statistical tools of Jay Arbuthnot and Eric Daoust’s Frozen Tools at your disposal.
Will Gabriel Landeskog contribute to your roster anytime soon?
Can Thomas Vanek survive on his own?
This week's Forensics - we go in-depth on Oilers pivot Sam Gagner
Sometimes, all an NHL player needs is a chance. Jiri Tlusty received his last year.
Is this playoff stud a regular season underachiever?
Should poolies expect Travis Zajac to bounce back after a tough couple of years in New Jersey?
Lancione takes a look at rugged winger Brenden Morrow, who is turning the clock back in Pittsburgh.
Lancione takes a look at Nazem Kadri's incredibly 2013 campaign.
It is amazing what can transpire over the course of two months in hockey. Often times, athletes struggle to combine their natural gifts with the polish, the effort, the discipline, the defensive awareness and sense of responsibility at the same time.
Can Mike Cammalleri get his groove back? Anthony Lancione takes a look.
Former top line sniper Mike Cammalleri is really vying to remove that prefix these days. Cammalleri, once a point-a-game player, netted close to 40 goals in two separate seasons. The peak of his powers were enjoyed back in the 2008-2009 campaign (below) where he finished a hair under 40 goals while putting up points with regularity.
Anthony Lancione takes a look at Myers' struggles in Buffalo.
Tyler Myers has certainly been humbled one month into the 2013 season, seeing himself healthy-scratched (for the first time in his NHL career) on consecutive evenings. To say his star value has fallen from his Calder Trophy-winning year over fellow rookies John Tavares, Matt Duchene and Jimmy Howard would be premature. However, one cannot discount that he has not come even close to fulfilling the lofty expectations after he signed a seven year, $38.5 million extension before last season.
Now that he has entered the first year of the new $5.7 peryear deal, there’s no doubt he’s felt the pressure. We can’t forget that Tyler is a very young man, only having turned 23 this month. Learning the hard way at times is the best way to improve, playing to the “take a step backward in order to take two steps forward cliché”.
