Looking Ahead: Adding Schenn, Gustafsson, and Anaheim Skaters; Dropping Huberdeau
Welcome back all! We finally have a ‘normal’ week for fantasy on the eve of a week where it’s going to be more schedule issues. If there’s one thing, I’ve tried to do here in [...]
Frozen Tool Forensics: Season-Over-Season Ice Time Changes for Nichushkin, Raddysh, Wheeler, Yamamoto, and Others
This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we are finishing out our early season exploration into time on ice. In what has become a recurring series in the column we are using our Frozen Tools Reports [...]
Ramblings: Wolf Called Up; Updates on Laine, Shesterkin, Pesce, and Addison; Bedard Piles on Points – November 10
Something that had been a bit confounding – maybe a lot confounding – about the Calgary Flames is their utter refusal to even bother giving minor league goalie Dustin Wolf a shot at the NHL [...]
Analytics Advantage: Comparing Expected Goal Scoring with High-, Medium-, and Low-Danger Scoring
In the realm of fantasy hockey, where every point can be the difference between triumph and mediocrity, a deeper dive into advanced statistics becomes not just a strategy, but a necessity. This season, we're peeling [...]
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Looking Ahead: Rasmus Sandin’s Upgrade; Cozens Getting Comfortable; Oshie’s Injuries
We’re at the American Thanksgiving mark of the season and I think this is a good benchmark of who’s who and who is for real in the NHL. It’s also a good point to look [...]
Top 200 Cap League Skater Rankings – November 2022
New rankings are updated below, and there are some fun movers due to new contracts, early season results, and a few other minor edits. The Injury to Aaron Ekblad has bumped up both Brandon Montour [...]
Frozen Tool Forensics: Future Performance Based on Early Performance
As fans and writers, we sometimes like to pick arbitrary times as opportunities to look back or to group sets of games. For instance, the All-Star break is often used as a halfway point and [...]
Ramblings: Scoring Chance Contributions from Hughes, Hintz, Stone, Dellandrea, Konecny, Necas, and Others – November 25
There is a lot of data to sift through in the fantasy hockey realm. Just perusing our Frozen Tools alone can have someone lost for hours, creating their own reports and parameters to see who [...]
Ramblings: Kochetkov Extension; Returns for Jones, Tarasenko, and Girard; Ekblad Ek-splodes; Happy Thanksgiving – November 24
One thing that had plagued the Carolina Hurricanes for years was a lack of steady goaltending. That has changed in recent seasons with the additions of Antti Raanta and Frederik Andersen. Both of those guys [...]
Fantasy Take: Arizona Swaps Timmins to Toronto for Douglas
Toronto and Arizona have swapped depth skaters to fill some organizational needs. https://twitter.com/CraigSMorgan/status/1595492392106590208 What the Coyotes Get: Size and depth for their AHL team, and a possible future depth forward, for a defenceman that they [...]