Ramblings: Being Patient with Brent Burns, Shutouts for Dell and Dubnyk (Nov 12)
Being Patient with Brent Burns, Shutouts for Dell and Dubnyk, plus more… […]
The Journey: Players Scoring Their First NHL Goals
There’s arguably no bigger “first” in a player’s career than scoring your first NHL goal. It signifies that you’ve arrived and made an impact. Sadly this is something I will never get to experience unless there is a team out there looking for a 34 year old with hand of stone (call me). But the [...]
Saturday Night Special: Daily Fantasy Picks – November 11
Top Budget Plays Centers Christian Dvorak $3500 – The center is a punt play at the least. However, playing against Winnipeg may set up very good as the center will draw depth Jets match-ups which are below Corsi relative. He is going to get decent opportunities. Dvorak has points in seven of his last ten [...]
Saturday’s NHL Game Picks – November 11
Well… last Saturday didn’t go as planned as I ended the day going 2 - 4, a bit disheartening but bound to happen every now and then. Since then my week has been rather solid, going 6 - 3, and I’m looking to carry that over into the weekend. One game I’d like to [...]
Ramblings: Sens/Avs in Sweden; Huberdeau Helps; Islanders Flop – November 11
It was actually a hefty seven-game Friday slate in the NHL. It’s nice to have more than a couple games to pay attention to! The NHL sent Colorado and Ottawa for a pair of games this weekend. This is an effort by the NHL to help grow both their league and sport because, as we [...]
Forensics: Six Fast Starters Who Are the Real Deal
In the past two weeks we’ve scrutinized some underrated options for your fantasy squad(s) followed by players to target whilst their values were below the norm for each respectively. Now in the vicinity of 15 games played give or take from team to team, it makes for a great opportunity to look into players who [...]
Looking Ahead: Tanner Pearson Makes a Great Waiver Pickup
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 [...]
Ramblings: Flaming Ferland (Nov 10)
We’ll start off today with a PSA: get your lineups set early! The Avalanche and Senators are playing over in Stockholm starting at 2:00 pm EST. That goes for tomorrow as well, as there are a pair of early games at 1:00 pm EST. * Micheal Ferland alert! The power forward is back on the [...]
Cap League Fallout of Colorado’s Prospect Acquisitions and Turris New Deal
This week's Capped analyzes the last week in hockey, discussing what changed for cap league managers. **** After having to write up covering the “big” deal between Detroit and Pittsburgh two weeks ago that saw fourth line players and draft picks swapped, Sunday’s blockbuster three-way deal was quite refreshing. The hockey world is still trying [...]
Ramblings: What About Buch?
Brad Marchand did not travel with the Bruins on their two-game road trip. At the earliest he’ll be back on Saturday for the back half of their home-and-home against the Leafs. In the mean time, you’ve got Anders Bjork in Marchand’s spot on the top line, but you also have Jake DeBrusk skating Marchand’s PP [...]