Grant Campbell breaks down the latest fantasy information from the Western Conference – the streaks, the slumps, the line combinations and much more.
I’m going to assume that every NHL team and city has a whipping boy or two on their rosters. This is the player who rightly or wrongly is singled out most nights, for lack of effort, lack of production, giving the puck away, losing a check, or a crappy game Corsi. Since I live in [...]
Now that the regular season has commenced, we are going to look at each team and focus on some key players, new players and each team's power play so far. It is very early, so things will change but early success can be a good sign of things to come. Anaheim Ducks Early ice time [...]
A core three is what I would consider the three players in an organization who the team should build around. The best teams in the NHL have six or seven players that we could put as that team's core three. Some teams it seems like we are scraping three players together and these are probably [...]
This will be the fourth season in which I will attempt to narrow down some of the top rookies for the upcoming season but this year I’m only going to focus on the Western Conference. Dobber has his top 50 list and Ben Gehrels looks at his Calder candidates in the 2022-23 Guide. Most years, [...]
Now that we have tiered the goalies and defensemen for the West and East, it is time to move on to the forwards. I will start with the Western Conference below. There are a lot more forwards than defense, so we will only expand on the first five tiers this week. Tier 1 Connor McDavid [...]
This week and next, Brennan Des and I will tier defense and forwards from the East and West. I will start with the West today but just a reminder that these tiers are subjective and meant as a guide to help you for fantasy purposes, not necessarily the level of skill of each defender. I’ve [...]
As Brennan Des looked at the different tiers of goaltending in the Eastern Conference last week, we will do the same for the Western Conference this week. Just a reminder that these tiers are subjective and meant as a guide to help you for fantasy purposes, not necessarily the level of skill of each goalie. [...]
Before J.T. Miller re-signed with the Vancouver Canucks on Friday night for seven years at $8 million AAV beginning next season when he will be 30 years old. I was going to write an article about what I considered the 15 worst current contracts in the West. With all the discussion in Vancouver and around [...]
Last week saw Phil Kessel sign with Vegas, which might improve their roster a little and Paul Stastny sign in Carolina. The number of free agents still available is dwindling and those remaining won’t improve a roster that significantly. Here is my look at the remaining top eight teams in the West and how they [...]
As it is the dog days of summer, I thought it would be an interesting exercise to rank the Western Teams from 16th to 1st and see what teams are locked to make the playoffs, on the bubble or not even close. Comments below are to be taken with a bit of caution as rosters [...]
