Three afternoon games (depending on where you’re located) including a tantalizing matchup to start the day between Nashville and Carolina. Juuse Saros was in the cage for the Predators, making his fifth start of the year. With Nashville down 1-0, Viktor Arvidsson did what Viktor Arvidsson does best: score goals, and often in spectacular fashion: [...]
Nicklas Backstrom has struggled this season, maybe even more than you think. […]
The Price is Back, Ovie Calls His Goal, Wild Bill Strikes Again, plus more… […]
This week’s edition of the Journey will look at the fastest rising prospect defensemen taken from Dobber’s monthly list. On the whole there wasn’t a whole lot of major shuffling outside of the four players below. Samuel Girard – 5th up from 31st The Nashville-Ottawa-Colorado three-way deal perhaps benefits no one greater than Girard. [...]
Top Budget Plays Center Carl Soderberg $3100 – The center is a punt play at the least. However, playing against the Calgary Flames may set up very good as the center will draw depth Calgary match-ups which are below Corsi relative. He is going to get decent opportunities. Soderberg is still playing around 15 minutes [...]
In last week’s column, I had an interesting discussion in the comments section with contributor JP. Essentially he was saying that in order to maintain longevity, and my bank roll, I should be picking closer games rather than heavy favourites (-200 and above). He’s not wrong on that front, but I think there might have [...]
The biggest news from Friday was that Carey Price would indeed return to action for the Habs on Saturday for a home game against Buffalo. If there was ever a game that would help ease him back into action, it’s a home game against a bad team playing the second of a back-to-back on the [...]
Not sure about everyone else out there in fantasy land but going into my drafts each season I certainly look to target at least a couple of players entering into the final year of their respective contracts. This has been a tested and proven strategy for me over time as players in this situation are [...]
All fantasy owners need help in the short term AND the long term. The Looking Ahead feature identifies one player to plug into lineups in the short term, a second to invest in for the long term, a third to bench for the coming week, and a fourth who will struggle to meet expectations for [...]
PSA: Black Friday hockey kicks off today at 1:00 pm EST, so get those lineups set early! * At the Thanksgiving break no team has played more games than the Arizona Coyotes with 24. Four teams have played 23 games (Washington, Pittsburgh, Montreal, Toronto). Meanwhile, a half-dozen teams have played only 20 games (San Jose, [...]
