Ramblings: DeSmith Steps Up, Ovechkin Struggles, Hyman Hot, Hellebuyck Not (Apr 27)
It’s all playoff pucks today. I’ll use that term because it was the name of the very first fantasy hockey article that I wrote way back in 2006 for a website that no longer exists. [...]
Frozen Tool Forensics: Most Valuable Fantasy Hockey Centers
We won’t be covering the NHL playoffs blow by blow in this column, though we will touch on teams a bit as they get knocked out in each round. For this week, and for several [...]
Analytics Advantage: The Western Conference Playoff Teams
Welcome back to the follow up to last week’s article, with this week being about the West and what they bring to the table. We are about 2-3 games into each series, and it is [...]
Ramblings: Tkachuk Leads Cats; Vlasic Extended; Anaheim’s Season and Mintyukov, Vatrano, Gibson, and More – April 26
Chicago has signed defenceman Alex Vlasic to a six-year deal with an AAV of $4.6M per season. I wrote about him yesterday when discussing the Blackhawks so read that for more on him. In [...]
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DFS Thursday: Rebounding Stars Including Oettinger and Seguin
I think we were all getting settled in for another overtime marathon last night, popcorn and beer refills all around, when BOOM! And yet another of the Cup favorites found themselves on the wrong end [...]
Top 200 Cap League Skater Rankings – May 2023
With the latest updates to the Value column, Connor McDavid is now the top value there as well, which is a tough this to do at a $12.5 million cap hit! On that note, Erik [...]
Ramblings: Panthers to Cup Final; Benn Suspension; Pittsburgh GM Search; Reichel’s Understated Season; Seth Jones’s Fantasy Value – May 25
In a fourth straight one-goal game, and one-goal win, over Carolina, the Florida Panthers are off the to the Stanley Cup Final for the second time in franchise history. Matthew Tkachuk put home a power-play [...]
Fantasy Hockey Poll: UFAs Who Will Disappoint the Most
Let’s not kid ourselves - no one thinks the majority of UFAs will be worth what they’re going to be paid. Whether it’s teams having to overspend due to shallow availability at a position or [...]
Ramblings: Vegas Steam-Rolls Game Three; Toronto’s Moving Players; LA Goalies; Cooley & More (May 24)
Every year it feels like the Conference Finals are the round that I watch the least of. For some reason they just don’t tend to hold the same interest that the other three rounds do. [...]
Ramblings: Bobrovsky Stonewalls ‘Canes; Kravtsov; Caufield’s Second Season; Josh Anderson’s Rebound – May 23
A 32-save shutout from Sergei Bobrovsky held Carolina off the scoreboard and helped Florida to a 1-0 win in Game 3 of the Eastern Final. It gives the Panthers a 3-0 series lead with four [...]