Grant Campbell breaks down the latest fantasy information from the Western Conference – the streaks, the slumps, the line combinations and much more.
A look at PP trends and usage from teams around the Western Conference Weekly Western Leaders Goals – 4 – Alex Iafallo – Los Angeles Assists – 6 – Leon Draisaitl - Edmonton Points – 8 – Leon Draisaitl - Edmonton PPP – 3 – Anze Kopitar – Los Angeles Shots on [...]
Western Leaders at All-Star Break (Leaders at break in 2018-2019) Goals – 30 – Nathan MacKinnon – Colorado (29 – Connor McDavid – Edmonton, Johnny Gaudreau – Calgary, Patrick Kane – Chicago, Gabriel Landeskog - Colorado) Assists – 49 – Connor McDavid – Edmonton (52 – Blake Wheeler – Winnipeg) Points – 76 [...]
Weekly Western Leaders (January 12th through the 19th) Goals – 5 – Dominik Kubalik – Chicago (back to back) Assists – 6 – Jonathan Toews -Chicago Points – 9 Jonathan Toews - Chicago PPP – 3 Connor McDavid – Edmonton, Leon Draisaitl – Edmonton – Zach Parise - Minnesota Shots on Goal – [...]
This will be my first The Wild West column after doing the Frozen Tools Forensic column for almost a year and I’m pretty excited to get going. Inspired by the original Wild West writer Ryan Ma, I’d like to focus on weekly happenings in and around the Western Conference of the NHL and look [...]
This week we are hitting the second in our two-part series on multi-cat contributors. As a reminder the focus is on players who are contributing in hits and blocks, but also are putting up some level of shot production. We will not include PIM in this article. In order to generate this list [...]
This week we are starting a two part dive into players in the West who are helping owners out in a wider variety of categories. The focus is on players (forwards this week - defense next) who are maintaining useful levels of shots and points, but are also contributing in hits and blocks. We [...]
In honor of the holidays we are going to take a look at skaters on our ranking lists. We are are looking at values at the start of season versus current values. These are based on Yahoo ranks (so take with a grain of salt). The categories taken into consideration are goals, assists, power-play [...]
Last week we took a look at forwards in the Western Conference that were seeing a change in their ice time. The idea being that deployment; linemates, power-play time, even-strength time on ice - all of these things matter when figuring out which players we want to hang on to, particularly when we get [...]
Opportunity is the name of the game in fantasy. Well so is skill, but you get the idea. A decent player with a great opportunity might be a better own than a good player with poor deployment. Linemates, power-play time, even-strength time on ice - all of these things matter when figuring out which [...]
Last week we took a tour of the Central Division, looking at the status of each team’s goalie performances and tandems. We return this week for our second installment, and this time we move on to the Pacific Division. One quick note to follow up: In the Nashville section I claimed there was [...]
