Hockey Rambling

My Ramblings this week have been a look back at some preseason predictions and how they fared. We had an overview of a handful of players on Tuesday and we looked at players I flat-out missed on yesterday. We are going to finish the week on a positive note and self-congratulation: players that proved me [...]

In my Ramblings on Tuesday, I talked about some predictions I made before the season and whether they panned out or flamed out. I want to go into this a bit deeper, looking into my methodology and the players we really, really missed on. For season-long rankings, I use something called Standings Gained Points (SGP). [...]

Entering last night’s game there were exactly three players on the Red Wings that aren’t listed as cold right now in the FrozenTools system. Those three are Tyler Bertuzzi, Moritz Seider, and Filip Zadina. The first two aren’t surprising, but the fact that Zadina is keeping his head above water while the rest of the [...]

We’ve nearly reached the end of both the fantasy and regular seasons. Most teams have somewhere around 5-7 games left, the East is completely wrapped, and at least half the West (if not more, depending on how we view Edmonton’s lead) is wrapped up as well. For anyone that is still in need of some [...]

If you’re fortunate enough to still be alive in your fantasy hockey playoffs, make sure to do a thorough check of your waiver wire. Desperate GMs could have offloaded players that wouldn’t normally get dropped and those teams still playing can take advantage. One such name to look out for is Evgeni Malkin who is [...]

Fantasy playoffs are top of mind for many of you reading this, with normally routine roster decisions becoming more magnified. I’ve seen a higher-than-normal number of start/sit questions on Twitter this weekend, many of which were very challenging! Complicated questions often don’t have easy solutions, so I’ll try to share some factors that I normally [...]

Carey Price made his long-awaited season debut, which happened to be his first game since last season’s Stanley Cup Final. Given his recovery from knee surgery and his personal struggles, the main takeaway should be that he has made it back to the Canadiens’ lineup. The game score shows Price stopping 17 of 19 shots [...]

In a head-to-head do-or-die week, scheduling matters. The Canucks are the one team without any remaining games this week, with every other team playing at least once on Saturday or Sunday. That means dropping players like Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Conor Garland, and even the injured Brock Boeser should be strongly considered. You’ll probably want to hang [...]

There are always some players that every person in the fantasy game has trouble giving up on. They are players that, for one reason or another, capture our attention and it’s tough to let it slip. It has surely happened to me, for better and worse. I had a lot of faith in both Tage [...]

If your league stats run through to the end of the regular season, you may want to check your stats/settings to make sure that you can now include the WPG/SEA game that has been rescheduled from today to May 1st due to inclement weather in WPG. I’m not sure if Yahoo or other platforms will [...]