The Wild West

  The offseason fantasy hockey outlooks for the San Jose Sharks and the St. Louis Blues   The final two teams are the two teams to make it to the Western Conference finals. Both are long embattled playoff underachievers, for San Jose it cost them their coach, Todd McLellan, last season while St Louis’ coach, [...]

The offseason fantasy hockey outlooks for the Dallas Stars and Nashville Predators...   This week features two teams who are still building towards becoming a true contender. Both teams looked impressive in the playoffs but still have flaws that need to be addressed. Nashville is trying to find the balance between defense and offense but [...]

The offseason fantasy hockey outlooks for the Chicago Blackhawks and the Anaheim Ducks...   This week features two teams who look to be in a position where each will have to moderately remake themselves for cap reasons. While the Blackhawks are the only one of the teams who look to be in a cap crunch [...]

The offseason fantasy hockey outlooks for the Minnesota Wild and the Los Angeles Kings...   Minnesota and Los Angeles   This week marks the first playoff teams to go under the microscope. Los Angeles and Minnesota are up as they finished lowest in the regular season standings of the teams eliminated in the first round. [...]

The offseason fantasy hockey outlooks for the Arizona Coyotes and Colorado Avalanche...   This week features a lesson in the impact of coaching. The Coyotes and the Avalanche have coaches at opposite ends of the spectrum. For the Coyotes Tippett has historically wrung every last drop out of his teams and last year was no [...]

The offseason fantasy hockey outlooks for the Calgary Flames and the Winnipeg Jets...   This week features the outlook for two teams who saw their fortunes tumble this year after making the playoffs last year. While the Jets can partially blame their place in a very strong division for the Flames it was more of [...]

The offseason fantasy hockey outlooks for the Edmonton Oilers and Vancouver Canucks...   It is time to start looking forward to next season. Over the next seven weeks each of the 14 Western Conference teams will be featured two at a time in reverse order of their finish this past season. This week will feature [...]

Libin looks back on his preseason predictions. He had his share of hits...and misses, too. Take a look   Before starting the fantasy outlooks for each of the Western Conference teams it seems to be the appropriate time to look back where the predictions made in this column went right and wrong this season. This [...]

  Taking a look at the 'best' fantasy performances from the Western Conference this past season   Once again as the playoffs begin it is time to look back at the season that was. The criteria remains as it was last year: overall fantasy impact. For skaters that amounts to points as well as peripheral [...]

Preview Time! Gearing up for playoff pools, we take a look at the key players of the Central Division...   (Pacific Division here) (Atlantic Division here)   The Central will be the focus of the second part of the playoff preview, and was though to be the group of death in this year’s playoffs. That [...]