Ramblings: Impact of Hughes Injury, Potential Gains for Wild and Habs Players (Sep 14)
Some news items to start. Ilya Sorokin is dealing with an upper-body injury from offseason training. GM Lou Lamoriello is unsure whether Sorokin will be ready for training camp but says he should be ready [...]
Frozen Tools Forensics: Multi-Cat Defencemen Including Tanev, Nurse, Trouba, and More
This week we are finishing our little mini-series on multi-cat players. Last week we looked at at forwards, and today we turn our attention to defensemen. For the purposes of this article we are mainly [...]
Ramblings: Hughes Injury; The Case For, and Against, Drafting Eichel, Schenn, Hagel, Bjorkstrand, and Others – September 13
The New Jersey Devils said yesterday that defenceman Luke Hughes suffered an offseason shoulder injury but does not require surgery. However, he is still expected to miss 6-8 weeks with the injury. That timeline of [...]
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The Journey: Top Prospect Performers in the SHL, Liiga, Allsvenskan, and KHL
Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. This week we will profile a number of top NHL prospects [...]
DFS Saturday: Feast With Leafs, Canucks, and Knights
It’s two days after USA Thanksgiving, and as a bona-fide descendant of those first Pilgrims, here’s a short list of things to be thankful for: The Old Guys - Of the top 20 scorers (and [...]
Top-200 Cap League Skater Rankings – November 2023
It’s early in the year, and this list doesn’t greatly overreact to the small sample size of the early part of the season. If someone like Travis Sanheim or Mason McTavish keep up their prolific [...]
Ramblings: Vasilevskiy Returns; DeAngelo, Kuzmenko Healthy Scratches; Benson Here to Stay (Nov 25)
I did not shop on Black Friday at all. Not just because I had to write the Ramblings, but because I have nothing to buy for myself and I’m not ready to start Christmas shopping [...]
Frozen Tool Forensics: Talbot, Johansson, Blackwood, Gibson, and More
This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we turn our attention to goalies. We are going to take a slightly larger view - not necessarily a breakdown of specific games, but an overview of how much [...]
Looking Ahead: Adding Lundell and Eberle; Laine’s Potential; Los Angeles Scheduling
Welcome back! Hope everyone is enjoying their week and for those of us in the States I hope you have a safe and happy Thanksgiving/working as little as you can this week.I wanted to make [...]