Like many of you, I’ve had a rough go with my picks in recent weeks. Games have been highly unpredictable from the standpoints of both results and goal totals. That being said, I’m feeling good about my picks this week. Let’s turn this around together! Gold Pick New York Rangers @ Tampa Bay Lightning (Over/under [...]
In last week’s article we were once again on the right path committing to 4-3-1 lineup construction builds with an emphasis on the top power play, as evident by the first place $10,000 winning lineup in the DraftKings $15 Kick Save Tournament (see below). This lineup entered by user joeflanagan9 featured a four-player Edmonton stack, [...]
The Chicago Blackhawks have traded winger Brandon Hagel and two 4th-round picks to the Tampa Bay Lightning for forwards Boris Katchouk and Taylor Raddysh and two 1st-round picks. This is a steep price for the Lightning to pay for Hagel, who was largely an unknown quantity at the start of last season. However, Hagel is [...]
Is your bracket busted already? Yep, same here. No control over that situation but what we can do is help win a matchup this week in fantasy hockey. Whether you’re up by a bunch, down a little, the team with somehow five players on IR, or you haven’t checked your team since February, there’s I [...]
NHL trade SZN rolls on, and so do Ben and Lewis! On the latest episode of Short Shifts they make their way through the latest headlines, including a discussion of the fantasy repercussions of the latest trades, a look at whether any goalies in Vegas are rosterable given Robin Lehner's injury, and the impact of [...]
When considering fantasy, I have never put much weight into home ice advantage. Not because I believe it doesn’t exist, it clearly does, home teams have a better winning percentage on average. There are literal rules embedded in the game that support the home team (on line changes, faceoffs), plus all of the unquantified factors [...]
It's always enjoyable to watch the veterans play hockey, but there is just something about watching the players who have only recently made their journey into the NHL that is just more exciting. While it’s nice to watch players like Anze Kopitar, Sidney Crosby, Claude Giroux, etc… There is just something special about watching some [...]
Seattle finally made a trade that actually looks like they got more than fair value on, netting three picks from the Flames (the highest of which is a second rounder) in exchange for versatile forward Calle Jarnkrok. What the Flames Get: The Flames already had a deep forward core, and they add an underrated scorer [...]
One of the big trade chips that the Montreal Canadiens had to offer – other than Tyler Toffoli, apparently – was defenceman Ben Chiarot. Notice that we said “was” and that’s because the Florida Panthers bolstered their blue line for the upcoming playoff run by trading for the pending free agent, just hours after trading [...]
In what looks like a pre-cursor move as we close in on deadline day, the New York Rangers turned a fourth-round pick and their abundance of cap space into a top-nine scoring winger in Frank Vatrano. What the Rangers Get: The Rangers have lost Sammy Blais for the season to injury, as well as Kaapo [...]
