The NHL draft is always full of surprises and this year was no different. Things got started early with a surprise top-five pick and continued throughout the first round. Here are a few such picks that caused a few eyebrows to raise on the draft floor. Barrett Hayton While the first four picks [...]
Once Barry Trotz resigned from head coaching duties of the Washington Capitals, the assumption was that associate coach Todd Reirden would take over. This finally came to pass on Friday afternoon as Washington named Reirden as the team’s new head coach. Reirden has been on the Capitals coaching staff since 2014, as outlined in [...]
There’s plenty of fantasy heroes season after season but we also see disappointment from others to accompany the positives. It can’t always be cheery when discussing players who did not perform to expectations, though many of the following players have valid reasons for down campaigns in 2017-18. Indeed, some just plain and simply did [...]
The Pittsburgh Penguins have traded diminutive winger Conor Sheary, along with defenseman Matt Hunwick to the Buffalo Sabres for a conditional fourth-round draft pick that can become a third rounder if certain conditions are met. The Penguins get: over $5 million in salary relief. I stress time and again on here how important this [...]
This was mentioned last week, but again, the salary cap for the upcoming 2018-2019 season will be $79.5M. Adjust accordingly. **** Between the Entry Draft and Free-Agent Frenzy day, this week is one of the best of the summer. The draft is a day full of hope (and usually torment if you live anywhere [...]
It pains me every year to start looking at goalie stats, picking goalies is notoriously difficult. Do you hate picking goalies so much that you’ll sacrifice a first round pick on Carey Price just so you can set it and forget it? Right, and then last season happens are you’re sitting there with the thoughts [...]
The fantasy world can be a fickle one. Maybe you always seem to wind up drafting players who are constantly injured. When you wise up and stop drafting them, they no longer get injured. Just because a player is a Band-Aid boy, doesn’t mean he’ll always stay there. In fact, there are numerous players [...]
We are back this week for round two of our summer series, this week featuring Arizona. The idea is to compare end of 2017-18 Fantasy Hockey Geek rankings for individual players with an expected ranking based on their average draft positions from the start of the year. This process does not necessarily identify who [...]
