It has not been the start to the season Buffalo wanted (7-8-1) and the injuries are starting to rack up. It started before the season with the Achilles injury to winger Jack Quinn and has included winger Alex Tuch for the last week (more on him in a bit). The latest was Tage Thompson, who [...]
Welcome to the newest edition of the Injury Ward. Here you will find the latest NHL injury updates and also which players may benefit from these situations. My name is Blake Creamer and I will be tackling this topic every single week. I want this article to work for you, so if there are players [...]
Another exciting, entertaining, and wild week in the NHL tees up the latest jam-packed edition of our Eastern Edge column. Today we’re taking a look at a number of intriguing trends and fantasy hockey hotspots out East that are worth a few minutes of your weekly fantasy research. Astute fantasy hockey GMs never slack on [...]
We now have a month’s worth of data from the 2023-24 season. So not only have the rankings been updated for injury, but a few notable performers have been moved up or down the rankings. As of September, the updated stat categories for the Roto Rankings are as follows: Goals, Assists, Special Teams Points, Shots [...]
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 [...]
I’m not sure when Charlie McAvoy is going to fully get his due as a top-five defenceman in the NHL, but he has been one for a while now. He had two assists last night to bring his season total to 11 points in 11 games. To boot, he’s dominant defensively, and is no slouch [...]
Welcome back to another edition of Lining Up! This week we will wrap up our review of each team and highlight noteworthy line combinations. In addition, with the upcoming Global Series in Sweden taking place, keep an eye on the schedule and players on your roster who may be missing in action over the next [...]
All told, it wasn’t a bad start to Jonas Johansson’s Tampa Bay tenure with a .925 save percentage (including two shutouts) in his first seven games. That has gone very south very quickly, though, as he’s posted an .861 save percentage in his last five outings, allowing at least four goals in all of them. [...]
After two weeks of covering the Monday Ramblings, I’m happy to be back doing the Wild West this week. This week, we are going to look at each team in the West and see how the goalies are doing, what the current deployment is and what it might be going forward. I’m also going to [...]
With a few exceptions, zero is not a number you want to see in fantasy hockey. Aside from a shutout from your starting netminder, seeing a zero pretty much means that your players are not performing. Maybe you're accepting of a few zeros if it's just one game. Maybe you're tolerant if it's a week [...]
