DFS Saturday: Oilers to Rebound
I’m unabashedly a Pittsburgh Penguins fan, so the biggest news this week from their organization was that Jaromir Jagr’s #68 jersey retirement will be honored on February 18 at PPG Arena, after his playing days [...]
Ramblings: The Struggles of McDavid, Klingberg, Huberdeau, Zegras (Nov 11)
We’re now approaching mid-November. The team that you picked to win the Stanley Cup (and many of our experts, too) is buried at the bottom of the NHL sea, having just lost to what is [...]
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 [...]
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The Journey: Assessing Early Hot/Cold Streaks from Vilardi, Guenther, Tomasino, Mittelstadt, Shaw, & More
Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. This week, we will scan for intriguing outliers in terms of [...]
DFS Saturday: Stacking Against the Road-Weary Sabres
As the calendar flips to November the first month of the NHL season is in the books. How about some early fantasy MVP’s? Well of course Connor McDavid leads the way but that’s a surprise [...]
Ramblings: Finnish Finishers; Top NHL Scorers in Horvat, Karlsson, Olofsson & More (Nov 5)
Happy weekend! I’m covering for Ian Saturday and Sunday, so you get an extra dose of Alex this week. * The Avalanche and Blue Jackets kicked off their weekend double header yesterday, with both games [...]
Looking Ahead: Steer Clear of Elvis and the Blue Jackets Next Week
Whether or not we all want to admit it, if you’re in more than one fantasy league, there’s always one league that you likely give favor to. It might be like picking between children, but [...]
Frozen Tool Forensics: Early-Season Changes in Deployment
In this Frozen Tools column we love to keep an eye on deployment, it has become a bit of a theme of the articles over the years. Getting access to top-six minutes and top power-play [...]
Ramblings: Kuzmenko Hat Trick; Hot Horvat, EK65, Lindholm; Cold Binnington, O’Reilly, Teravainen (Oct 4)
Cam Talbot made his season and Senators debut on Thursday, although it wasn’t planned that way. Anton Forsberg was given the hook after allowing five goals on 19 shots. Forsberg has allowed at least four [...]