Ben and Lewis are on the case, alternating injuries and outjuries, plus a hot and cold streaks segment that negs Paul Stastny into a multi-point night. Players discussed include Jesse Pulujarvi, James Neal, Alex Pietrangelo, Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Jakob Chychrun, Alexander Radulov, Dustin Brown, Paul Stastny, Mikhail Sergachev, Tomas Hertl, Erik Karlsson, Mattias Janmark, Pavel Buchnevich, [...]
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 [...]
I was off last week, but we are back for a grand tour of power-plays. We touched on players with increased power-play roles a few weeks ago here, but this week (and for a couple of weeks) we are going to be focusing on power-play quarterbacks. We had quite a few pre-season questions, plus now [...]
Here are the Top 50 prospect defensemen to own in your points-only keeper leagues - February edition! Some movement at the top end again, as with the Top 200 Prospect Forwards. But this time we have a new number one! Adam Boqvist is showing that he's just not ready to contribute points to fantasy teams [...]
A few days ago, I received a message from a reader asking me about when it makes sense to cut bait on an unproductive rookie in a keeper league. I didn’t have a quick answer and said that it would be something that would need a much deeper look, so that’s what is going to [...]
Here are the Top 200 prospect forwards to own in your points-only keeper leagues - February edition! As always, players within plus/minus 5.0 rating points should be considered equal value and at that point become a matter of team needs or personal bias. Come back tomorrow for the list of defensemen. Click any player name [...]
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 haven’t been any significant updates about their progress recently. If you ever need injury updates for a specific player, shoot me a message on Twitter @BrennanDeSouza! John Gibson – The Ducks [...]
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, normally 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 [...]
EPISODE SUMMARY The Short Shifters are back with analysis on the Patrik Laine benching, as well as his new teammate Jack Roslovic, our first look at Pierre-Luc Dubois' deployment in Winnipeg, and a chance to steal starts for a couple of young goaltenders. Players discussed include James van Riemsdyk, Joel Farabee, Patrik Laine, Jack Roslovic, Pierre-Luc DuBois, Andrew Copp, Blake Wheeler, Anthony Cirelli, Nick Schmaltz, Cody Glass, Teuvo Teravainen, Vince Dunn, Justin Faulk, Nick Ritchie, Jake Oettinger, Anton Khudobin, and Cal Petersen.
In this week’s Eastern Edge we’ll take a look at some ice time trends early in the 2021 campaign. Specifically, we’ll highlight two players seeing more ice-time than usual, and two players seeing less ice time than usual. Jack Hughes As a rookie last year, Hughes averaged 16 minutes of ice time per game [...]
