This week's Frozen Pool Forensics dives into a down season production-wise for David Backes. **** Entering the second round of the NHL playoffs, the St. Louis Blues had reason to celebrate. It is a well-known fact that the Blues have had extensive playoff trouble, yet this season, they were finally able to advance past the [...]
Top 100 Defensemen (May): Letang, Shatty, Carlson get bumps... These defensemen were pulled from the Top 300 Keeper League Players list. Get details on criteria (points-only keeper leagues - and other factors) here. Def. Rk Player Team Rating May Apr 1 Erik Karlsson OTT 135.1 11 9 2 John Klingberg DAL 100.6 28 28 [...]
Top 300 Fantasy Hockey Keeper League Players - May edition. Crosby recaptures the crown. And look! There's McDavid... In your points-only keeper leagues, here are the top 300 players to own. Remember, positions don't matter (so a defenseman may be undervalued here vs. in your league). Other factors - potential points longterm, their likely [...]
This week's Capped discusses some free agent signings from last year that did not work out. **** In the previous Capped, I reviewed some of the better unrestricted free agent signings from the summer of 2015. In this week’s Capped, we flip the script, and take a look at a few that simply didn’t work [...]
Injury updates: The latest - what little is revealed - on injured playoff players such as Seguin, Maatta and others... Hey everyone, welcome to your mid-round recap of injuries in the Stanley Cup Playoffs! As usual, injury news is scarce in the postseason, but there’s some stuff the coaches just can’t hide. The East [...]
Digging deep on defensemen Alec Martinez and Erik Johnson. Who's the better own? Facing off this week are defensemen Alec Martinez and Erik Johnson. Both are 28, and seemingly at career crossroads. Can Martinez continue his late blooming to further improve? Will Johnson be able to climb back to previous production levels, which saw [...]
The Calgary Flames fired head coach Bob Hartley Tuesday. […]
This week's edition of the Eastern Edge looks at the 2016 offseason outlooks for the Maple Leafs and Blue Jackets … […]
Fantasy Impact: Toronto Maple Leafs have signed KHL star defenseman Nikita Zaitsev to a one-year contract. The Leafs get: a 24-year-old offensive defenseman who is a late bloomer. Never drafted, Zaitsev blossomed in the KHL in 2014-15 when he finished ninth among defensemen in scoring with 32 points in 57 games. He finished 15th [...]
The offseason fantasy hockey outlooks for the Edmonton Oilers and Vancouver Canucks... It is time to start looking forward to next season. Over the next seven weeks each of the 14 Western Conference teams will be featured two at a time in reverse order of their finish this past season. This week will feature [...]
