The Wild West

Last week we wrote about what each team in the Western Conference might do at the trade deadline. This week we will write about what each team in the West actually did. I’m going to include trades that have been made since the beginning of 2025. Prices were high in the days leading up to [...]

The NHL trade deadline is at noon PST on March 7th. We will look at each team in the West and determine if they are buyers or sellers, considering which players a seller might deal and what positions a buyer needs to bolster. Anaheim Ducks - 26W - 25L - 7OT - 59 PTS - [...]

We last checked in with AHL prospects for Western teams in mid-November. I’ve added a few players since then as some of the mid-level prospects have had good seasons. This is part two after posting part one last week here. We’re not going to include players over the age of 25 or any player currently [...]

With the NHL being on a two week break and the Four Nations halfway finished, we can focus on some prospects. I might have been completely mistaken about the intensity levels of the Four Nations when I thought it might be an All-Star type competition. I’m happy to have been wrong as the hockey has [...]

Honestly, I rarely talk about goalies in the Wild West. I don’t understand them and as I’ve said many times before, they are a mystery to me. They don’t follow the same path of development as skaters and they can be on top of the world one year and then crash and burn the next. [...]

I’ve updated my player valuations up to the end of January and thought we could go through the best surpluses and worst deficits on each team in the West. This is a comparison to what level a player is performing at compared to their actual salary cap hit. It is easy to say that a [...]

In July 2024, I wrote about players I thought could be on the trade block for each team in the West (link here). I thought we could re-visit each team and see which of those players have been traded and if there are some players who should be added to the list. Expecting the unexpected [...]

With the first half done, we will look at some of the players in the West who have exceeded expectations with what people had going into 2024-25. I will avoid looking at rookies and blue-chip prospects in their second or third seasons as they are a different category altogether. These are players who you might [...]