With Dan Vladar being pulled in Calgary’s game on Tuesday night, it seemed likely that prospect Dustin Wolf would get the nod in net and that’s exactly what happened. Jacob Markstrom injured his hand when he got hit with an errant puck during practice and that pushed Wolf to the NHL roster. The young netminder [...]
As the fantasy hockey season crosses its one-third mark, a critical reassessment of earlier strategies becomes essential. This article revisits previous analyses, offering a mid-season update enriched with the latest data and advanced metrics. By re-evaluating player performances and statistical trends at this crucial juncture, we aim to provide a grounded, data-driven perspective for fantasy [...]
Hey-o to all my cap-friendlies out there! Hope everyone is having a great week thus far.Two seasons ago the New York Rangers traded a second rounder to Chicago for Patrick Kane and when it happened, I tried to think of any deadline (key word there), trade that really vaulted a club to either was impactful [...]
Ottawa has won two games in a row and a big part of that has been the goaltending from Anton Forsberg. His four starts since (and including) his game in Sweden has produced a .936 save percentage, and those recent two wins have seen him stop 72 of 74 shots. This team still needs to [...]
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 [...]
Welcome back to another edition of the Roos Lets Loose monthly mailbag, where I answer your fantasy hockey questions by giving advice that should be useful to all poolies even if they don’t own the specific players being discussed. As a reminder, if you want your fantasy hockey question(s) answered in the next mailbag, check [...]
The NHL currently has the Board of Governor meetings ongoing, and this is where often the agenda looks dry, but sometimes there are some juicy nuggets dropped. Thus far there hasn’t been anything exceptional like the out-of-nowhere announcement a few years ago that the NHL was crowdsourcing interest in ticket sales in Las Vegas, but [...]
Similar to many NHL general managers and their recent roster moves, we’re switching things up in this week’s edition of Eastern Edge. With teams around the league taking serious looks at acquisitions ahead of the holiday freeze, there’s no shortage of impactful hockey news from nearly every single team that’s affecting your fantasy squad. From [...]
Welcome back to another edition of Lining Up! This week we will check in on younger players or rookies and how they have been deployed during the first quarter or so of the season. There is no specific criteria for ‘young’ here, we’re just digging a little deeper on younger players that owners have been [...]
After missing Saturday’s game due to illness, Mathew Barzal was back at Islanders practice on Monday, skating in his usual spot on the top line. It seems as if he should be good to go for the team’s home game Tuesday night against San Jose. Brock Nelson and Noah Dobson were both absent from practice [...]
