The Calgary Flames have hired Glen Gulutzan to be the team's next head coach. **** With Guy Boucher going to Ottawa, and Randy Carlyle to Anaheim, the head coaching positions were starting to thin out in the NHL. Today, Calgary named for Dallas Stars head coach Glen Gulutzan as the next bench boss for the [...]
This week's Frozen Pool Forensics discusses the future for Pittsburgh's rookies. **** Despite what you may have heard from those interviewed on the Jimmy Kimmel Show, the Pittsburgh Penguins are your 2015-2016 Stanley Cup Champions. A great deal of their victory can be attributed to the laundry list of what went right, a notion spreads [...]
The Dallas Stars have traded the rights to Alex Goligoski to the Arizona Coyotes. **** Earlier today, there was another casualty of the cap crunch being faced by teams pushing the upper limit. Teuvo Teravainen was packaged in a deal with Bryan Bickell yesterday, and this afternoon, Alex Goligoski was traded from the Dallas Stars [...]
Fantasy Impact: Carolina has acquired young winger Teuvo Teravainen from the Chicago Blackhawks in exchange for cap relief. The exact deal - Teravainen and Bryan Bickell to the Hurricanes for a second-round pick this summer (50th overall) and a third-round pick in 2017. The Hurricanes get: a potential star in Teravainen and a [...]
Who is the better fantasy own - Ryan McDonagh or Anton Stralman? Full analysis here! After more than 100 Cage Matches, there’s rarely a first for me; but we have one this week in that the two players facing off (defensemen Ryan McDonagh and Anton Stralman) had exactly the same main stat lines last [...]
Expect fantasy ripples and not waves following the hiring of Randy Carlyle by the Anaheim Ducks … […]
This week's edition of the Eastern Edge looks at the 2016 offseason outlooks for the Islanders and Capitals … […]
The Top 50 Prospect Defensemen to own in fantasy hockey, June edition. Provorov rules, Zaitsev debuts, Graves emerges... Here are this month's top defense prospects to own in a points-only keeper league. Taking into account the organization depth chart, wait time, upside and NHL certainty. +/- 5.0 rating points please consider them [...]
The offseason fantasy hockey outlooks for the San Jose Sharks and the St. Louis Blues The final two teams are the two teams to make it to the Western Conference finals. Both are long embattled playoff underachievers, for San Jose it cost them their coach, Todd McLellan, last season while St Louis’ coach, [...]
The Top 10 NHL playoff duds of 2016 One thing that both Stanley Cup finalists had in common is that neither one of them had a disappointing player. The other 14 postseason teams can't say the same. A couple of weeks ago we looked at the top 10 players who had their stock improve [...]
