New York took a stranglehold of their second-round series with a 3-2 overtime win in Carolina. The Rangers are now up 3-0 in the matchup and have a chance to close things out Saturday night back in Raleigh. Alexis Lafreniere and Artemi Panarin both had a goal and an assist with the latter tallying the [...]
Travis Green was introduced as the new coach for Ottawa on Wednesday. I wrote about his time in Vancouver and why he could be good for the top Senators skaters in the fantasy game. It is a very interesting offseason ahead in Ottawa and, by happenstance, I wrote about their 2023-24 season and their future [...]
When it comes to mastering your fantasy hockey roster and dominating your league, sometimes you need to look back to get ahead. Such is the case with some of the underrated x-factor-type players that can fly under-the-radar with their impressive fantasy production - smaller markets, teams in the basement, and players without household names are [...]
Welcome back to Goldipucks and the Three Skaters, a play on words of the Goldilocks and the Three Bears story. Instead of there being three bowls of porridge though, I cover three skaters and declare one too hot (i.e., doing unsustainably better than he should), another too cold (i.e., doing unsustainably worse), and a third [...]
The NHL’s draft lottery yesterday was anti-climactic, with the San Jose Sharks winning the first overall selection, and the Chicago Blackhawks winning the second overall pick – exactly where they were slotted before the lottery. That means no teams changed position, not even Detroit, who always seems to find a way to drop. https://twitter.com/wyshynski/status/1787979897362637252 It’s [...]
With the Ottawa Senators firing head coach DJ Smith in December and moving Jacques Martin into that role, the search for a new head coach effectively started before Christmas. With so much turnover in that role across the league, there was no shortage of applicants, and Ottawa finally made their decision by hiring Travis Green: [...]
Winnipeg Jets head coach Rick Bowness announced his retirement on Monday. Bowness was Winnipeg’s coach for these last two seasons, leading them to the playoffs twice. He had a Cup Final run with Dallas in the 2020 Bubble Playoffs but was never able to lift the Stanley Cup. Regardless, he seems to be held in [...]
In the fantasy hockey world, it’s never too early to look ahead at draft season to start pondering and plotting moves to get a leg up on other GMs who might be slacking. Digging into numbers, doing advanced research, and having a constant eye on how the rest of the playoffs unfold are all excellent [...]
This week, we will look at the salary cap space for each team in the West and look at the UFAs leaving and the RFAs who need to be re-signed. From the surface, it feels like there is far more cap space available for teams to sign free agents this off season than has been [...]
We had two games on Sunday, with one being Game 1 of the second round between Carolina and the NY Rangers, and the other being Game 7 between Vegas and Dallas. NY Rangers vs Carolina The Rangers won 4-3 in a tight game, where Carolina went 0-for-5 on the power play and the Rangers went [...]
