Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. **** This week, I’m diving into the world of goaltending prospects, focusing on those primed to make a splash in the upcoming NHL season. These young netminders have already demonstrated their potential value [...]
This week we are finishing our little mini-series on multi-cat players. Last week we looked at at forwards, and today we turn our attention to defensemen. For the purposes of this article we are mainly going to be focusing on hits, blocks, and shots (sorry no penalty minutes). I have pulled all the data for [...]
Free hockey pool player boxes, for those who would like to run simple pools at the office... Every year in April (for the NHL playoffs) and to kick off September (for the regular season) I group players into comparable boxes and post them online for people to enjoy for free. Whether it's for the office [...]
Dave Minuk of illegalcurve.com joins the show to talk Winnipeg Jets. Victor and Jesse ask about Mark Scheifele, Kyle Connor, Nikolaj Ehlers, Gabe Vilardi, Cole Perfetti, Vladislav Namestnikov, Mason Appleton, Brad Lambert, Josh Morrissey, Neal Pionk, Dylan DeMelo, Ville Heinola, Connor Hellebuyck, Kaapo Kahkonen, and Eric Comrie. In-Goal Magazine's Cat Silverman joins in our Cat's Instincts segment [...]
Welcome back to Analytics Advantage! With draft season just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to sharpen your strategy. This week, we’re zooming in on defensemen, focusing on their Fantasy Points Per Game (FPPG) and how they stack up across the league. By breaking down the numbers and using percentiles, we’ll get a clearer [...]
Welcome back to Goldipucks and the Three Skaters, a play on words of the Goldilocks and the Three Bears story. Instead of there being three bowls of porridge though, I cover three skaters and declare one too hot (i.e., doing unsustainably better than he should), another too cold (i.e., doing unsustainably worse), and a third [...]
It’s been almost three months since we last took a look at the best teams in the Eastern Conference and power ranked them by division. Considering how much money changed hands and bodies moved cities since July 1, we felt it was the perfect time to revisit our rankings and provide an updated order of [...]
Here are the first four tiers of my monthly dynasty league goalie rankings - September edition! If you want to dig further, the full Top 100 is presented at GoaliePost.com. Get set for the season with the FREE app Goalie Post (for Apple here, for Android here) the 19th annual Fantasy Hockey Guide was released [...]
I thought we would look at each team in the Western Conference and see what players have been, or could be, an injury risk in 2024-25. This is such a contact sport that any player can be injured at any time, but these players seem to have either bad luck or a style that leads [...]
Fantasy draft preparation rolls on in our latest top-10 list, this week serving up the best right wingers in the game that any GM would be lucky to get a piece of. At this point of the offseason we’re running out of superlatives when it comes to describing the finest forwards in the NHL, so [...]
