The Wild West

This is the second part of our series looking at young players who could play 60 games (25 games for goalies) or more with the big club in 2025-26. Since we reviewed the first eight teams in the Western Conference for part one, we are going to look at the next eight teams (Nashville to [...]

We are going to look at each team in the Western Conference and look at some young players on the roster or in the system who could play 60 games (25 games for goalies) or more in 2025-26 with the big club. We will not include players who played 40 games or more in 2024-25. [...]

Not including rookies or players who missed significant time in 2023-24 or 2024-25, I wanted to list the skaters who have improved and declined the most from their 2023-24 campaigns. I will be relying a little on my player-game ratings as they give me a simple number to compare against. An average player rating for [...]

Not including rookies or players who missed significant time in 2023-24 or 2024-25, I wanted to list the skaters who have improved and declined the most from their 2023-24 campaigns. I’m going to be relying a little on my player-game ratings as it gives me a simple number to compare against. An average player rating [...]

Last year around this time, I wrote about which players drove play the most and the least on each team in the West. I relied on IPP (Individual Points Percentage) and secondary assists, which is a very simplistic way to determine the players, but it has some validity. IPP is the percentage of on-ice goals [...]