After taking a break for the month of April, the Roto Rankings are back for May. Consider these rankings very preliminary rankings for next season before the usual flurry of offseason activity. The stat categories for the Roto Rankings are as follows: Goals, Assists, Special Teams Points, Shots on Goal, Hits, and Blocked Shots. For [...]
With the second round of the playoffs underway, this week’s edition of Analytics Advantage takes a look at how teams and players are trending based on their underlying numbers. The box score doesn’t always tell the full story, and these updated Tableau visuals offer more context behind who’s driving results and who might be falling [...]
The Los Angeles Kings’ general manager search did not last long as they hired former Oilers boss Ken Holland to take over the direction of the team. Given Los Angeles’ struggles against Edmonton in the playoffs in recent memory, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, I guess? The forward group is largely fine, so [...]
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening everyone. Welcome to the Injury Ward. My name is Logan Clarkson and every Wednesday I will be chauffeuring you through injury news and updates from around the NHL. I’ll do my best to offer useful analysis and opinion as it relates to fantasy throughout. As always I'd like to [...]
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 [...]
Miro Heiskanen was finally available for Dallas, and he played a lot less than his usual workload, generally taking short shifts, and showing the occasional uncharacteristic mishap. He’s not 100%, but he did provide some solid play on the whole, added an assist, and Dallas came out with the win in the end. That means [...]
Max Domi was fined $5 000 for his hit on Aleksander Barkov in the waning seconds of Game 4 on Sunday night. If nothing else, Game 5 should be a lot of fun because that fourth game saw Toronto start pushing back physically, so it’ll be interesting to see how Florida reacts to that. If [...]
This is part two of our series covering players set to become free agents on July 1st or at the end of 2025-26. Check out part one here. This week, we are going to look at Nashville, San Jose, Seattle, St. Louis, Utah and Vancouver. We will also see how much salary cap space each [...]
No matter how dialed-in we are heading into drafts, pouring over rankings, building out our own projections, and locking in sleepers, every season delivers a handful of breakout performances that catch everyone off guard. We are talking about players who did not just beat expectations, they shattered them. Some came out of the late rounds [...]
Dallas 5, Winnipeg 2 (Stars lead series 2-1) Another heroic performance from Mikko Rantanen spurred the Stars to a Game 3 victory on Sunday. With three points, Rantanen took back top spot in the league’s postseason scoring race, leapfrogging Connor McDavid. It’s hard to articulate the outlandish run Rantanen is on right now. He has [...]
