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Geek of the Week: Players Who Could Help Your Team If Traded – Part III

By Eli Feldman|2025-02-23T12:11:22-05:00February 23rd, 2025|Geek of the Week|

Hello hockey heads! Welcome to the third and final installment of “Players Who Could Help Your Team If Traded”. I’m Eli Feldman. In the wake of the majorly successful 4 Nations tournament, the NHL regular season picked up right where it left off yesterday afternoon with a jam-packed 14-game slate. By the looks of it, [...]

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Geek of the Week: Players Who Could Help Your Team If Traded – Part II

By Eli Feldman|2025-02-16T16:20:14-05:00February 16th, 2025|Geek of the Week|

Hello everyone and welcome to Part II of the three-part series, “Players Who Could Help Your Team If Traded”. Last week, I highlighted players who could help you dominate G, A, and +/- categories if they are moved before the NHL’s March 7 trade deadline. And as promised, this week’s article will examine players who [...]

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Geek of the Week: Players Who Could Help Your Team If Traded – Part I

By Eli Feldman|2025-02-09T16:11:19-05:00February 9th, 2025|Geek of the Week|

On the opening track of Kendrick Lamar’s latest No. 1 album, “GNX”, the 22-time Grammy award winner and tonight’s Super Bowl halftime show headliner encourages listeners to get “geeked up.” Well, Kendrick, you have your wish. Welcome to the latest edition of Geek of the Week! I’m your host, Eli Feldman. Although 46 days have [...]

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Geek of the Week: The Past Eight Weeks of True Value Goalies

By Ryan Brudner|2025-02-02T19:48:21-05:00February 2nd, 2025|Geek of the Week|

Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this article, I will be revisiting my True Value Goalie Rankings to examine the goalie landscape. If you are unfamiliar with my True Value constructs (Quality Weeks, Really Bad Weeks, and Star Weeks), I utilize these to model a Goalie’s True Value in head-to-head (H2H) [...]

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Geek of the Week: Bangers and Smash

By Ryan Brudner|2025-01-26T20:38:00-05:00January 26th, 2025|Geek of the Week|

Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this week’s article, I am going to take a look at some trends in hits lately. Some players have emerged from the minors as great banger options, while some have just flipped a switch lately and have started to hit much more than when they [...]

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Geek of the Week: Plus-Minus Trends

By Ryan Brudner|2025-01-19T15:31:38-05:00January 19th, 2025|Geek of the Week|

Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this week’s article, I am going to analyze an ugly stat that many (including myself) don’t love to include in my multicategory leagues, but it’s still widely used – Plus-Minus. In general, players can be hurt in the plus-minus category based on their teammates’ poor [...]

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Geek of The Week: Penalty Minutes – Minors, Majors, and Misconducts

By Ryan Brudner|2025-01-12T13:09:38-05:00January 12th, 2025|Geek of the Week|

Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this week’s article, I am going to examine one key stat of penalty minutes (PIM). I’m going to review the top PIM leaders so far and where these PIM are coming from. I’ll explain which types of PIM are best and which players to target [...]

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Geek of the Week: Goalie Values at The Halfway Point

By Ryan Brudner|2025-01-05T20:55:08-05:00January 5th, 2025|Geek of the Week|

Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this article, I will be revisiting my True Value Goalie Rankings to examine the goalie landscape. As we are just nearing the halfway point of the season, the True Value Rankings can shed light on what has happened in the first half and possibly what [...]

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Geek of the Week: New Year, New Me – New Year Splits

By Ryan Brudner|2024-12-29T14:06:37-05:00December 29th, 2024|Geek of the Week|

Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this article, I’ll be taking a look at some players’ splits examining stats prior to the new year, and after the new year in a season. This could provide some insight into who may have a second half surge for the rest of the season. [...]

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Geek of the Week: Shot Attempts, Shots on Goal, and Shots per 60

By Ryan Brudner|2024-12-22T15:21:05-05:00December 22nd, 2024|Geek of the Week|

Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this article, I will be examining shots. We’ll examine shot attempts, sometimes represented as individual Corsi For (iCF) – when a player shoots the puck toward the net, whether it hits it, misses, or gets blocked and shots on goal – when a player's shot [...]

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