Amato takes a look at Columbus' surprising run at a playoff spot
When the Columbus Blue Jackets traded Rick Nash last summer it signaled the end of an era. The skilled winger had spent his entire nine year career in Columbus, was the team captain, and the face of the franchise. His highlight reel goals and presence as one of the league's elite players gave Blue Jacket fans a sense of pride.
There are just a week or two left in the regular season for the head to head leagues. This was one of the few weeks in the season where numbers seemed a little more spread out than usual. It is a strange time with oddities abound so let’s go “Between The Lines once again as we recap Week 9 and head for Week 10.
Fantasy Impact: The New York Rangers have agreed to terms with their former 'castaway' Mats Zuccarello. Terms of the contract are unknown at this time, but one would assume that it's a one-way deal, as that is what he was angling for last summer.
Fantasy Hockey Impact: The Pittsburgh Penguins have acquired Brenden Morrow and a third-round draft pick in exchange for blue-chip prospect Joe Morrow and a fifth-round draft pick.
When building a fantasy hockey team, the only thing better than finding players with great value is finding players who provide great value AND have additional upside. Today I am going to profile a player who does exactly that: Evander Kane.
Fantasy Impact: The St. Louis Blues have traded winger Matt D’Agostini to New Jersey in exchange for a conditional draft pick.
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.
The Lightning have a number of young players building up their fantasy values in 2013.
With 41 points from rookies this season, the Tampa Bay Lightning rank second in rookie scoring. Take 23-year-old Calder Trophy candidate Cory Conacher and his 21 points out of the equation and the Lightning remain in the top 10, tied with Detroit at number nine.
Since Feb. 10, six rookie forwards have made their NHL debuts for Tampa, all getting the call from the American Hockey League’s number Syracuse Crunch. Averaging 45 points in the American League this season, these four Syracuse call-ups are a great display of the Lightening’s depth at the forward position, filling holes left by injuries to Vincent Lecalvier, Ryan Malone and Benoit Pouliot, all placed on the injury reserve earlier this month.
Jonathan Briggins looks at a top prospect for the 2013 Draft.
If you asked a casual hockey fan who the top rated players for the 2013 NHL entry draft are, chances are the most frequent answers would be Portland Winterhawks D-man Seth Jones and the Halifax Mooseheads forward duo of Nathan MacKinnon and Jonathan Drouin. Take a peak at International Scouting Services March rankings and you’ll see Russian forward Valeri Nichushkin at number two, his second month in a row that he has been directly behind Jones.
Marty Kwiaton gives his thoughts on some of Saturday's key matchups in the NHL.
After muffing the first two games on Saturday two weeks ago, the rest of the picks went my way to give us four winners the rest of the way, bringing me back up to 50% (finally). Anthony came back down to earth a little last week picking “only” four winners but was bang on in the Jets shootout victory over the Leafs. Let’s get right to it as the NHL continues to fill the schedule with early games on Saturday.
