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, we will continue the Uncertain Futures segment that has so far featured Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen (BUF), Dylan Holloway (EDM), and Bobby Brink (PHI). Each instalment will highlight a player with [...]

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, I’m going to highlight some of the top scorers in each of the three Canadian Hockey Leagues (CHL): the Western Hockey League (WHL), Ontario Hockey League (OHL), Quebec Major [...]

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, we will continue the Uncertain Futures segment that began with Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen a few weeks ago and will continue throughout the summer. Each instalment will highlight a player with [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. Those of you heading into keeper and dynasty drafts in the fall are probably planning to use the increasingly popular goalie-avoidance strategy, dubbed Zero G. The thought there is to punt [...]

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, we will examine two young players whose playoff performances have their fantasy stocks headed in different directions: one up, one down (or at least sideways). Postseason production should be [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. In theory, fantasy sports are all about numbers. But emotions and psychology often play a significant role in how managers make decisions and build their teams. Some of us love collecting [...]

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, we will begin an Uncertain Futures segment that will continue throughout the summer. Each instalment will highlight a player with an uncertain NHL projection who was covered by the [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. I was going to focus on rookie performances in the playoffs, but aside from Matthew Knies (TOR, four points in seven games) and Wyatt Johnston (DAL, four in eight), first-year players [...]

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 flip side of last week’s scan for young players who overachieved in 2022-23: we will use Evolving Hockey’s Fantasy Points Value Adjusted (FPV Adj) stat again, which [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. Although we are in the midst of playoff action—and wow, do I ever miss this time of year!—fantasy managers have already begun performing retrospectives on their rosters, assessing strengths and deficiencies [...]