Capped: Sell-High Candidates
After we touched on some of the buy-low candidates last week, this week we’re going to look through a few sell-high options. First though, I wanted to touch on the Robert Bortuzzo signing. The most comparable contracts (as shown below) are Jordie Benn, Kevin Connauton, and Mark Fistric. Of the set, I would certainly [...]
December Top 100 Roto Rankings
Welcome back to the Top 100 Roto. For newcomers joining us, this Top 100 is driven by a set of categories. Know that this is not a points-only ranking, rather a roto ranking geared towards rotisserie and head-to-head leagues. The categories included are G, A, PIM, PPP, Hits, Blocks, GWG and SOG. This list is also built [...]
Injury Ward:
John Klingberg. Brad Rempel / USA Today Sports Images Here’s this week’s latest injury news from around the league. As always, follow me on Twitter @BrennanDeSouza for injury updates as soon as they’re made public! Rickard Rakell – Won’t be back before Christmas. Rakell’s point totals have gradually improved since he tallied [...]
Fantays Hockey Cage Match Tournament: The New Normal (Part Two) – 25 and Older
Welcome back to the winter Cage Match tournaments! By your votes, Pierre-Luc Dubois was proclaimed the player under age 25 whose higher than expected scoring this season is most likely to represent – at a minimum - his “new normal” going forward, edging out Dylan Larkin (by one vote) and Sebastian Aho (three votes). [...]
Eastern Edge: Reviewing Recent Turnaround Predictions
My favorite play of the season so far has been picking up Petr Mrazek once Curtis McElhinney went down. As you’ve probably read by now my appetite for goalies is not very large. So when a goalie pickup turns into a week winning shutout performance it sure is gratifying. Hopefully those in need of [...]
Lining Up: Top-Performing Lines in the East – December 18
In this week’s instalment, I share a few quick notes about how some lines in the Eastern Conference have been performing this season. Using Dobber’s Line Production Tool, we compared even-strength point production around the league. ‘Time on ice’ represents how many minutes each trio has played as a line this season, values were retrieved [...]
Flyers Fire Dave Hakstol; Scott Gordon in as Interim Head Coach
Fantasy Impact: The Philadelphia Flyers have fired their head coach David Hakstol after three-plus seasons with the team, replacing him on an interim basis with assistant coach Scott Gordon. Gordon was told that he would be the coach for the 51 games that remain in the 2018-19 campaign. Scott Gordon was previously [...]
Top 10 Surprises of 2018-19
We’re only a couple of weeks away from NHL teams hitting the midpoint of the season, and that’s always a good time to have a look-see at the hits and misses of the first half. Obviously, there are always surprises. No matter how many prognosticators you follow, or how many computer simulations are run, there [...]
Fantasy Hockey Podcast – Hayes Of Our Lives
After three weeks of wonderful guest co-hosts (thanks Cam and Pete!), Brian returns from paternity leave to join Elan for another classic episode of the Keeping Karlsson Hockey Podcast, chock full of the latest NHL hot streaks, cold streaks, injuries, outjuries, line changes and fantasy analysis. On this week's show, your intrepid co-hosts discuss the [...]