It’s Thursday again, that means it’s time to read some weekly thoughts on players, their salaries, and whatever else crosses my mind. Let’s get to it. The bubble presents a weird in-between season. Do we call this a separate season of development for the youngsters that are getting closer to a breakout? Should the 2019-2020 [...]
The Montreal Canadiens traded 2020 third and seventh-round picks to the St. Louis Blues in exchange for goaltender Jake Allen. Montreal Receives: A competent backup netminder to fill the bridge until Cayden Primeau is ready to take the job. The 30-year-old, Allen posted a 12-6-3 record with a .927 save percentage in 24 regular-season games [...]
It’s hard to believe, but the last time the mailbag was emptied the NHL had yet to resume play! The return of NHL games doesn’t change the mission of the mailbag though, which is to answer your fantasy hockey questions while also giving advice that should be useful to all poolies even if they don’t [...]
Here are the Top 100 goaltenders to own in your fantasy hockey keeper leagues - August edition! (Yes, we're a day past August, but better late than never!) As always, please focus on the Tiers. The goalie position is very volatile in fantasy hockey and in most cases it is fruitless to forecast their performance [...]
Playoff Western Leaders Goals – 9 – Bo Horvat - Vancouver Assists – 13 – Nathan MacKinnon - Colorado Points – 21 – Nathan MacKinnon - Colorado PPP – 10 – Elias Pettersson - Vancouver Shots on Goal – 54 – Nathan MacKinnon - Colorado PIM – 44 – Antoine Roussel - Vancouver Best plus/minus [...]
Last week, we looked at fantasy-relevant players that had significant more defensive zone starts than in the offensive zone. For some of these players, that usage has hindered their offense. After all, starting in the defensive zone means you’re 200 feet away from scoring. However, starting in the offensive zone doesn’t always help either. As [...]
On this episode of the Keeping Karlsson Fantasy Hockey Podcast: What does anti-racism have to do with hockey?See a list of hockey+anti-racism Twitter accounts, podcasts and recent articles at keepingkarlsson.com/blmDoes Kapanen going to Pittsburgh change anything for his or anyone else's fantasy value?Why is Dallas scoring so much, why is Philadelphia scoring so little, and what [...]
Every Sunday, we’ll share 21 Fantasy Rambles from our writers at DobberHockey. These thoughts are curated from the past week’s 'Daily Ramblings'. Writers/Editors: Ian Gooding, Michael Clifford, Cam Robinson, and Dobber […]
Welcome back for another installment of The Journey. In the midst of all this entertaining playoff action, two clubs, both of which were eliminated in the qualifying round, blessed us with a fun announcement. That’s right folks, we had a trade. In case you missed it, here is a recap of the deal: Pittsburgh Penguins [...]
We have been following the playoffs for the last several weeks here at Frozen Tool Forensics and I wanted to continue that trend this week. So far we looked at potential targets in the Play-In rounds, some of the results of the Play-Ins, and then some high performers from the teams that were eliminated (see [...]
