Welcome back to Analytics Advantage! As the 2025 NHL regular season approaches, now is the critical moment for fantasy managers to make their final draft decisions. The preseason provides a glimpse into player performance and team strategies, but should we trust the hype around standout performers? In this article, I’ll break down the top preseason [...]
Hello all and welcome back! Let’s dive back in on some summer signings, or as we say in fun 9-5 world, “let’s circle back”. Can’t put offseason signings on the backburner. Let’s touch base on a deliverable you can bring to the table for your fantasy draft. Jake Guentzel – LW – Tampa Bay – [...]
It has been a brutal preseason for goalies as Vancouver’s Thatcher Demko’s injury status is uncertain, Boston’s Jeremy Swayman still hasn’t signed a contract, and it was revealed Ilya Sorokin suffered an offseason back injury that require surgery. It isn’t outlandish to think that if all three were healthy/signed and in the lineup for Game [...]
The puck drops Friday on the 2024-25 regular season, albeit with the full schedule not commencing until October 8th. But as always, before game number one it’s time for me to make my annual Fearless Forecasts for fantasy. Here’s the part where I usually talk about how my prior season’s Forecasts fared, toasting my successes [...]
Two more days until real games. We're almost there! Continuing from last week, I have some training camp notes on players that have caught my eye. As a Predators fan, I was really hoping to see a new second line of Steven Stamkos, Jonathan Marchessault, and Tommy Novak. That line has been together quite a [...]
Major injury news, contract negotiations (or a lack thereof), line shuffling, roster tinkering, and of course, regular season hockey - we are SO back, baby! Welcome inside the latest iteration of Eastern Edge, a weekly fantasy hockey column that serves up all of the top news permeating the NHL’s Eastern Conference that fantasy GMs need [...]
Here we go again. A new NHL season has begun, and what does that mean? Our fantasy hockey teams are back in action! And also, for some reason, there are new NHL hashtags to memorize for X.com. I don't get it either. Why not keep - forever - an easy-to-remember hashtag that fans will never [...]
Kaiden Guhle was back at practice for Montreal on Monday. He was in a non-contact jersey but has over a week to get up to speed so it seems he may be ready for the start of the regular season. Guhle had 22 points, 56 PIMs, and 294 hits+blocks in 70 games last season, so [...]
Today we will look at the final eight teams in the West and determine what roster spots actually have openings for competition. Each year, we get excited at the idea of a young prospect having an outstanding training camp and making the NHL roster as an 18- to 20-year-old rookie. Unfortunately, more often than not, [...]
We did it, hockey heads. The most exciting time on the North American sports calendar has arrived. The NFL is in full swing, October baseball is looming, the NBA is only a few weeks away from tipping off and most importantly, the NHL is set to drop the puck on the 2024-25 campaign with the [...]
