All fantasy owners need help in the short term AND the long term. The Looking Ahead feature identifies one player to plug into lineups in the short term, a second to invest in for the long term, a third to bench for the coming week, and a fourth who will struggle to meet expectations for [...]
This week we are going to take a bit of a long and meandering trip. I write this intro after I went down this rabbit hole, and it all starts with the tools available on Frozen Tools. I added some links along the way so that folks can follow along and find the various reports/charts [...]
The Florida Panthers have started shedding some salary, and it’s begun with Brett Connolly. The former 20-goal scorer had fallen out of favour with the Panthers and was infrequently in the lineup. He has been dealt to Chicago in a significant deal, at least in the number of pieces. It breaks down as follows: To [...]
As I looked at what to write for this week, I realized the list of Restricted Free Agents this year is really long. I figured it worth while to spend this week going over the omitted. Let’s skip the preamble and dive right in: Kirill Kaprizov, Minnesota Wild ($925K, Age 23) The great thing about [...]
It's not common that trades break after a game has already finished on the day, but with an early start on the Ottawa/Edmonton game, the Islanders and the Devils took the spotlight off the games for the evening, agreeing to a deal to send both Travis Zajac and Kyle Palmieri to Long Island. Many had [...]
Here's the latest injury news from across the NHL! If you're looking for information about a specific player and don't see their name in this article, there probably hasn't been any significant updates about their progress since last week’s article. If you ever need injury updates for a specific player, shoot me a message on Twitter @BrennanDeSouza. Rickard Rakell [...]
EPISODE SUMMARY Ben and Lewis are BACK to talk about Hall and Palmieri sitting out games as they await trades and two major injuries in Montreal. Then they take a look the two rookies tending twine in Boston and a streaker down in the desert, before wrapping up with a tough talk about what to do with fizzling Flames.
Welcome back to Goldipucks and the Three Skaters, a play on words of the Goldilocks and the Three Bears story. Here though, instead of there being three bowls of porridge, 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 "just [...]
With injuries across the league and numerous COVID cases coming up daily it seems, we are always going to be scouring the waiver wire to try and make up our missed games. As we are now on the stretch run of the season and pushing for the playoffs in head-to-head leagues, we cannot afford to [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll look at how skaters and goaltenders have performed against particular teams in 2021. This season presents a unique dynamic as teams have to face the same opponents more frequently than they have in years past. So, while a small sample size may have prevented this data from being relevant [...]
