Keeping Karlsson: Matchup Maximizer 2025/26 Week 15
Elan takes a look at the schedule for the upcoming week of NHL action and recommends some players with good schedules that you should consider streaming in to win your head to head matchups.
The Journey: U20WJC Top Players Who Helped or Hurt Their Stock Most
Welcome back to The Journey, where we track how prospect development curves translate into real fantasy relevance. The World Junior Championship is often remembered for its headline names and highlight plays, but its real evaluative value lies in how players handle pressure, responsibility, and high-leverage minutes against their elite peer group. This tournament produced clear [...]
Saturday Picks: McDavid & Matthews Cleared For Takeoff
With all 32 NHL clubs officially past the halfway point of the 2025-26 campaign and the postseason rapidly approaching, competition in the league is about to level up. Usually, it would also be appropriate to mention the tightening of the standings during this stretch with contenders truly separating themselves from pretenders as spring hockey looms [...]
Analytics Advantage: Doan’s Broad Fantasy Appeal; Buium’s Role Reliance; Coleman’s Stability, and More
This week’s group is built around players whose fantasy value is being driven by real, repeatable usage rather than short-term scoring spikes. Some are benefiting from expanded power-play roles, others from stable top-six minutes, and a few sit in the middle as speculative adds where the deployment still makes the risk worthwhile. The common thread [...]
Keeping Karlsson: Short Shifts – 6-7? No. 5 in 7!
Ryan takes us on a speed run news tour around the league before launching into a full analysis of the 5 games in 7 days phenomenon necessiated by the compressed Olympic schedule.
Looking Ahead: Leonard’s New Role; Carlsson’s Declining Value; Buffalo’s Favourable Schedule, and More
Whether you are scanning the waiver wire for possible additions or scouring the trade market to improve your team, ‘Looking Ahead’ has the information you need. We are looking at Brandon Bussi’s new-found value, whether to trade for Trevor Zegras, Anaheim’s tough upcoming schedule affecting Leo Carlsson and others, and a whole lot more. Let’s [...]
Frozen Tools Forensics: Evaluating Production from Pending Free Agents, Including Raddysh, Malkin, Grzelcyk, and More
This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we are going to dive into upcoming UFAs. We won’t specifically be tackling which players might be moving at the deadline, though there certainly could be some overlap in the names we address today. Instead, we are taking a look at players who have seen changes in their production [...]
Puck Picks: Toronto’s Shot Volume; Lehkonen’s New Role; Hischier’s Shooting Upside, and More
Welcome back to Puck Picks! Each Thursday, I break down some of my favorite NHL bets, explain the reasoning behind them, and track performance transparently. The goal of this column isn’t just to share picks, but to help you recognize why certain spots have value so you can identify them throughout the season. I’ll be [...]
DFS Thursday: Road Flames; Home Wings; Werenski’s High Cost; Greaves’ Value, and More
Good day to all my DFS folks! I played an Ottawa Senators top line double-center stack yesterday and didn’t cash…this was all while watching the Dallas Stars versus Washington Capitals game. Here in the States, for some reason, the TNT game is just never really entertaining. We need to give Wayne and Hank something better [...]
Capped: Impact and Values of Extensions for Dvorak, Wennberg, and Annunen
Hello and welcome back in everyone to the world leader in NHL salary cap musings and rumination. We got some signings to discuss and of course, we’ll break down what it means for your fantasy team. Recently hired Caleb in your work league doesn’t care about your salary league the way that I do! Or [...]