The Wild West

  In the course of planning the usual Drop or Not section for this week, there were just a few too many players to talk about. So as not to exclude, this week’s article will focus on a number of those players and particularly those who have not been performing up to expectations in recent [...]

  This week we are taking a quick trip down Power Play Lane. To start I took a look at the expected goals per 60 min numbers for teams on the power play (courtesy Evolving Wild). In a rather fortuitous coincidence, the top four teams were all western teams (see table below). In order to [...]

  Over the past couple of games, I have been seeing a few defensemen popping up quite a few times in the box scores. I’ll be honest one was Oscar Klefbom and I had to check and see if it was an illusion. That led to looking at the top-scoring D in the west - [...]

  A conversation this weekend on the success (or lack thereof) of a couple of teams to start the season got me thinking about starting streaks in the NHL. It ends up being a surprisingly relevant topic as most of the records that I looked at for this article are held by players or teams [...]

  And it has happened at last. After a long summer of waiting, we finally have some actual hockey to report on. It has been an exciting first week with three and four-goal outings (I mean he isn’t in the West, but how about that Mika Zibanejad with eight points in two games!). Games played [...]

The season is finally upon us. My final drafts have wrapped up this weekend and I wish I could say that I stuck to my plan - but alas. Now that most drafts are done we can now turn our attention to the first matchup of the season. If you are playing in a Yahoo [...]

  So we have finally concluded our summer series and now our focus turns to the draft table in earnest. Our summer series highlighted players who were excellent value, or extreme disappointments on draft day in 2018-19, but as we turn to 2019-20 our goal is to grab the draft steals and avoid the busts. [...]

  Welcome to week 15, the final week of our summer series. Like last season, this series is intended to take a look at the teams in the Western Conference one by one. We will do a short recap of what took place, but the deep dive here will be into the players that helped [...]

  Welcome to week 14 of our summer series. Like last season, this series is intended to take a look at the teams in the Western Conference one by one. We will do a short recap of what took place, but the deep dive here will be into the players that helped make it so, [...]

Welcome to week 13 of our summer series. Like last season, this series is intended to take a look at the teams in the Western Conference one by one. We will do a short recap of what took place, but the deep dive here will be into the players that helped make it so, for [...]