With the trade deadline in your leagues around the corner, now is the time where you will begin to understand if your goal is to make the playoffs or to fold the hand that you’ve been dealt and accept a higher draft pick. Buyers and sellers should be known this time of the year. When [...]
Ryan Johansen was not on the ice for Nashville’s third period at home against Vancouver on Tuesday night. He left the game with an injury late in the second period, needing help from his teammates, and did not return. We got word from Elliotte Friedman on Wednesday that Johansen was having surgery: https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/1628412514387083266 No immediate [...]
Here’s the latest injury news from across the NHL! If you’re looking for information about a specific player and don’t see their name in this article, there probably haven’t been any significant updates about their progress since our last article. A few teams haven’t been on the ice since the All-Star break began, so we’ll [...]
Welcome back to another edition of Lining Up. This week we will examine how some of the recent big trades have impacted the line deployment of respective teams as well as how each new acquisition is faring in their new roles. We will also touch on a few quick hits who are seeing favourable line [...]
Anyone who plays a second in even a single NHL game has done something only a tiny fraction of those who’ve laced up a pair of skates ever will. And players can have far greater value in “real” hockey than in fantasy. These things having been said, the reality is there are players in today’s [...]
I put out my initial list of the 2023 free agency salary projections late last week, and while I publish it with a small ramble to lead into it, I wanted to talk about a few more players here. If you need any details on what I do or how the numbers come to be, [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll discuss a few players that may be moved before the NHL’s trade deadline on March 3rd. Tyler Bertuzzi With his contract expiring and his team falling out of the playoff race, Bertuzzi found himself in plenty of trade rumours heading into the All-Star break. Fast forward to the present, [...]
The Pittsburgh Penguins got a boost to the lineup as goaltender Tristan Jarry was in net for the team’s game at home to the New York Islanders on Monday night. He had missed nearly a month with an upper-body injury and has just three starts in calendar 2023. Staying healthy has been an ongoing concern [...]
Dobber’s Frozen Tools has a new feature available to Patreon members that gives the ability to look at every team’s last three games and see what the lines were at even strength, on the power play and shorthanded for that period. I realize I don’t write the Frozen Tools column any longer but I still [...]
Sometimes, you need to treat your fantasy team like a real NHL team. Sure, you need superstars to win championships, but don't overlook what some of the underrated players can bring to the table. For the last few weeks, this column has been focusing on players to try to acquire for next season and beyond, [...]
