Sidney Crosby finally made his season debut on Saturday, but neither he nor the Penguins received the result they were hoping for. Crosby was held without a point with a minus-3 with two shots in 19 minutes of icetime in a 4-2 loss to New Jersey. The Penguins have to be relieved that their captain [...]
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, I thought I’d finally complete the top 32 of this year’s draft-eligibles and provide some updates to last month’s top 15, using the league’s current standings as a reference [...]
After what has been a heartbreaking and extremely tough week in terms of news coming out of the NHL, for obvious reasons, I think it’s safe to say I am very much looking forward to getting back to what I do best: feed you winners on Saturday. In terms of last week’s picks, a Side [...]
With the season just shy of one-tenth of the way complete, it seems pretty certain we can write off Toronto, Boston, Vegas, and Colorado as busts this season. Too soon? Okay, too soon. While it is surprising those teams would NOT be in the playoffs if the season ended today, and it is equally surprising [...]
The NHL has announced that Jets GM Kevin Cheveldayoff will not face any discipline for his role in the Blackhawks sexual assault scandal. Even though Cheveldayoff wasn’t considered the authority figure at that time that he is today, his reputation will be affected simply by his knowledge of and presence in the situation as an [...]
Now that we are a couple of weeks into the season and we have some massive sample sizes to work with (notice the tongue firmly planted in cheek here), I want to turn our attention to players who have been seeing a change in deployment that could impact their fantasy value going forward. This week [...]
The Immediate Fix (Grab this guy and use him for the next several days)Andrew Mangiapane, LW, Calgary Flames (Available in 28% of ESPN leagues, 23% Fantrax, 54% Yahoo ) – The Flames have been off to a great start this season with a 4-1-1 record and have looked great on their most recent east coast [...]
I don’t believe in stacking the top PP unit with your best guys, once it’s clear that your power play is not in the NHL’s Top 10. Take the Toronto Maple Leafs, for example. If Auston Matthews, John Tavares, William Nylander, Morgan Rielly and Mitch Marner sit you in 28th place in the league for [...]
After meeting with Gary Bettman earlier in the day, Joel Quenneville has resigned as head coach of the Florida Panthers. Andrew Brunette will take over as the interim head coach. With news surfacing about Quenneville’s inaction to Kyle Beach’s report of sexual assault during the 2010 playoffs when both were in the Blackhawks organization, as [...]
Like a volcano erupting the fantasy landscape for defencemen dramatically altered in a matter of three months. This offseason was met with collective sighs, ooh’s and ah’s as defenceman after defenceman signed for higher than expected values. Erik Karlsson and Drew Doughty still stand alone, as outliers on the defencemen salary cap landscape making $11.5M [...]
