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The Wild West – AHL Prospects by Team – Part One

By Grant Campbell|2025-02-17T09:13:30-05:00February 17th, 2025|The Wild West|

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 [...]

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The Wild West – Goalie Check-In at the Break

By Grant Campbell|2025-02-10T08:57:25-05:00February 10th, 2025|The Wild West|

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. [...]

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The Wild West – Player Valuations

By Grant Campbell|2025-02-03T08:26:01-05:00February 3rd, 2025|The Wild West|

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 [...]

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The Wild West – Revisiting the Trade Block from July 2024

By Grant Campbell|2025-01-27T09:28:47-05:00January 27th, 2025|The Wild West|

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 [...]

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The Wild West – Players from the West Exceeding Expectations in the First Half

By Grant Campbell|2025-01-20T10:16:30-05:00January 20th, 2025|The Wild West|

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 [...]

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The Wild West – Potential Western Conference Award Winners

By Grant Campbell|2025-01-13T08:41:12-05:00January 13th, 2025|The Wild West|

I thought we could see if there are any players at the halfway point from the Western Conference who are in the running for some of the major league awards at the end of the year. We will look at the Calder, Norris, Art Ross, Rocket Richard, Vezina and the Hart Memorial trophies and make [...]

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The Wild West – Western Players with Lowered Ceilings

By Grant Campbell|2025-01-06T09:59:45-05:00January 6th, 2025|The Wild West|

This week we are going to look at some players in the West who might have been drafted with aspirations of being 30-story towers with two-story penthouses but might only be two-story walk ups. I’m going to focus on players aged from 23 to 25 who were 1st or early 2nd round draft picks, as [...]

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Wild West – Western Conference Players at the World Junior Championships

By Grant Campbell|2024-12-30T14:03:04-05:00December 30th, 2024|The Wild West|

Happy Holidays and an early Happy New Year! I thought it would be interesting to see what player(s) (prospects) each team in the Western Conference had in this year's WJC. Hopefully, this might help you get an update on some of your prospects or give you a heads up on some available ones in your [...]

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The Wild West: Diamonds in the Rough by Category

By Eli Feldman|2024-12-22T19:46:12-05:00December 23rd, 2024|The Wild West|

Hi everyone! I’m Eli Feldman, the sheriff in town for this week’s edition of the Wild West. As we approach the Christmas break, this time of gratitude serves as a natural opportunity to acknowledge some key contributors who have so far this season elevated fantasy hockey teams to new levels. Of course, many usual suspects [...]

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The Wild West – Skaters Who Have Gone Up or Down a Tier from 2023-24

By Grant Campbell|2024-12-16T10:27:31-05:00December 16th, 2024|The Wild West|

I’m going to look at players from each team in the Western Conference and see what skaters have dropped or gone up a tier or two this season (2024-25) compared to last season (2023-24). These are tiers I’ve just made up for this article so please don’t confuse this with other Tiers you have seen [...]

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