The Journey

Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. This week is the second part in a series gleaning insights about prospects and young players from the Frozen Tools Player Usage Charts, which can be found under the Advanced Stats [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. If you often root around in the “Advanced Stats” tab on Frozen Tools player profiles, you will doubtless be familiar with the Player Usage charts. Once you learn how to read [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. This week, we will look at several prospects who have excellent track records dating back to junior but seem unlikely to become meaningful fantasy contributors for the next couple years. Although [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. This week, we will scan for intriguing outliers in terms of luck (PDO), involvement in team scoring (IPP), shifting opportunity, Breakout Thresholds, and shooting percentage. It is an interesting time to [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. This week, we will conclude this three-part check-in on my Calder Trophy projections for the Dobber Fantasy Guide by discussing some rookies I would add to my Top 25 list now [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. This week, we will continue revisiting the 25 players I listed in my Calder article for the Dobber Fantasy Guide to see who opened the season in the NHL and who [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. Over the next few weeks, we will revisit the 25 players I listed in my Calder article for the Dobber guide to see who opened the season in the NHL and [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way.  Before getting to some deep sleepers for 2022-23, you know I have to start with this: https://twitter.com/beegare/status/1578469864838410240?s=46&t=HhrMau0veBSH5zhIp76Y1g Eeli Tolvanen has been a mainstay on The Journey over the past couple years, [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. The preseason is an excellent time to sell high on prospects who are seeing preferential deployment in the early going. While the odds are that that deployment won’t last, poolies are [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. The 2022-23 season is just around the corner, and in the flurry of fantasy drafts happening recently the question of how to accurately assess, predict, and draft goaltenders continues to frustrate [...]