Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. **** No one drafts a player expecting them to fall short, but the risk of unmet expectations is always looming. The real challenge is figuring out when to stick with a player and [...]
Just how good is Lane Hutson? Well rating-wise he’s right there with the guy who fantasy GMs were talking about trading Connor McDavid for just a year ago. He’s putting up historic numbers for a rookie defenceman, and is outscoring the next-best rookie defenceman by 27 points, just halfway through the year. As of the [...]
Take a deep breath and exhale, hockey heads. The NHL is absolutely buzzing right now and that’s going to have an impact on odds, lines, and of course game results - to be honest, it’s been hard to keep up. Three-team trades shaking up both conferences, major injuries, hey, even Tony DeAngelo is back. Complete [...]
Happy Saturday to everyone out there playing DFS today! If you like to stack road favorites, then boy is today’s slate for you. Toronto, Dallas, Tampa Bay, New Jersey, Carolina, Washington, Nashville, Florida: all on the road today. I went to see if the team with the best road record is on this slate and [...]
Did anyone see the massive trade coming? The deal itself might have been out of left field, but it shouldn’t be a complete shocker that Mikko Rantanen and Martin Necas were traded. Re-signing Rantanen appeared to be a major challenge for the Avalanche, while Necas was rumored to be on the trade block during the [...]
If you are a fan of blockbuster trades, you’re in luck. A major three-way trade involving Carolina, Colorado, and Chicago was completed late Friday. https://twitter.com/frank_seravalli/status/1882982124321743114 The meat of this trade was between Colorado and Carolina, with the two main principals being Mikko Rantanen (to Carolina) and Martin Necas (to Colorado). Considering both are top-15 scorers [...]
With the news that defenceman Noah Dobson is week-to-week with a lower-body injury, the New York Islanders were short their best puck-moving defenceman and a power-play quarterback. The team is a ways out of the playoff race, but a sustained hot streak could get them within striking distance, so they decided to bolster their blue [...]
Welcome back in, everyone! It’s been tough sledding here for yours truly. I have more players on IR than I have IR spots to put them all and by some miracle am still within striking distance in my matchup. I can’t stand injuries, you guys. Let me repeat that: I cannot stand injuries and when [...]
Today on Frozen Tool Forensics we are digging into free agents. Well, players who might be available in your league that you should really have your eye on. Given that all leagues are different, and players will have different values in every situation, there is some non-exact science to this calculation, but we are going [...]
While the extent of the injury to New Jersey Devils goaltender Jacob Markstrom hasn’t been made official yet by the team, Kevin Weekes reported that it is not as serious as it looked, but that it is putting Markstrom’s participation in the Four Nations Cup in peril. That would indicate that it will likely be [...]
