Cage Match: Sean Couturier vs. Vladislav Namestnikov
Two forwards off to a hot start on their team's top lines are featured in this week's Cage Match […]
Taking A Fancy To The Canucks’ Top Line
In this week’s installment, we get fancy with a few fancy stats. While some of you might be well versed in the math behind hockey, we’re going to keep it relatively simple for my simple mind. We show PDO some PDA, but instead of diving too deep into the numbers, we’ll just consider a [...]
On The Rebound
Each season, there are a number of players who have fantastic starts and then fade. Others get off to slow starts and then go on the offensive. Many of the players we’ll look at this week started slowly, but appear to be turning the tide. Lars Eller A model of underwhelming consistency, Eller [...]
Wild West: Tortoises and Hares Among Forwards
As NHL teams hit about the 15-game mark in the campaign, we start to see what we might have hoped to be some players’ short lulls turn into more serious patterns of below-expectation play, or initial hot streaks look a bit more enduring. We’ve now gained enough of a sample size to start evaluating a [...]
Fantasy Top-10: Players To Grab In Yahoo Leagues
We’re a month into the season, but don’t worry if your team is not doing too well. There’s plenty of season left and plenty of players on the waiver wire that can help. In my 12-team Yahoo roto league we dress four centres, four left wingers, four right wingers, six defensemen, two goalies and five [...]
Keeping Karlsson no. 163 – The Times They Are Duchene-ging
The best laid plans for an episode that was supposed to begin with Elan and Brian offering their latest Carey Price conspiracy theories were turned upside down with breaking news of the Duchene-Turris trade coming minutes before showtime. But not to worry, as the guys serve up their piping hot fantasy insight and analysis on that and all the week's [...]
Top 100 Keeper League Defensemen – November 2017
The Top 100 defensemen to own in a points-only keeper league - November edition. This list was curated from the main Top 300 skaters list (you can check that out here). As always, players within +/- 5.0 ratings points should be considered equal value and at that point become a matter of team [...]
Geek of the Week: Evander Kane
Why is Evander Kane so valuable in fantasy, and can he keep it up? […]
The Journey: Early Returns From Each 2017 Draft Round
Welcome to the latest installment of The Journey! This week I’ll be taking a look at seven players, one from each round, from the 2017 Entry Draft that are currently outplaying their draft position. I do realize that most of these players have only played a fraction of their season so far and a lot [...]