The Wild West

Sometimes teams have slow starts, and other times, players just start slowly. It could be a case where the player was battling some injuries early in the season, but it’s always a little concerning when you are last in your hockey pool after almost two weeks, like me. Anaheim Ducks Frank Vatrano (5-0-0-0) - (81-21-24-25 [...]

This week, we will examine some interesting player deployments on each Western Conference team after the first few games of the 2025-26 season. Anaheim Ducks Beckett Sennecke (19.6 years of age), who was the 3rd overall pick in 2024, scored his first NHL goal in his first NHL game on three SOG. He also had [...]

With the regular season starting on October 7th, we could look at each team in the Western Conference and focus on players who might make the big clubs in the first week who were not NHL regulars in 2024-25 (50 games or more). There are still some salary cap maneuvers to be made, so some [...]

This week we are on to Part Three of our Core Four with Seattle, St. Louis, Utah, Vancouver, Vegas and Winnipeg. The Core should be players from each roster who are the foundation for their team’s roster over the next three to five years. Ideally, players should be between the ages of 22 and 27 [...]

This week we are on to Part Two of our Core Four with Edmonton, Los Angeles, Minnesota, Nashville and San Jose. The Core should be players from each roster who are the foundation for their team’s roster over the next three to five years. Ideally, players should be between the ages of 22 and 27 [...]

I’ve been looking at the Core of Western teams for a few years now, and thought it was time to see who the core is on each team in the West as we head into the 2025-26 season. The Core should be players from each roster who are the foundation for their team’s roster over [...]

Now that most roster depth charts are set and any changes outside of trades will be fairly inconsequential, I thought I’d enter all the players into my google sheets for each team roster and see how teams line up compared to this time last year. This week is a little light in terms of writing [...]