The Oilers went ahead and fired Dave Tippett on Thursday, relieving him of his duties following their home loss to Chicago on Wednesday night. Not that it was a big surprise, but the Oilers are now on their fourth coach in four seasons, with Todd McLellan, Ken Hitchcock, Tippett, and now Jay Woodcroft all having [...]
The Edmonton Oilers did what all bad teams do: blame the coach. Dave Tippett was fired as coach of the Oilers on Thursday morning with Jay Woodcroft taking over in his place. The Oilers are, ostensibly, in their Cup window and have looked nothing short of average-to-bad for three months now. Whether the problem is [...]
In this week’s installment of Capped we’re going to be talking about goalies who are trending in the right direction. That could mean they’re playing well currently, it could mean that their overall team situation has improved, but in the end, it means that they carry some sort of fantasy relevance.These are just a few [...]
Tuukka Rask has retired from hockey. The hope for the Boston Bruins had been to have Jeremy Swayman and Linus Ullmark handle NHL duties while Rask healed from his hip surgery. Then, Rask would return, Swayman would be sent down, and the Bruins would have a heck of a one-two punch with Swayman as insurance. [...]
The hapless Canadiens fired their head coach just months after he was at the helm for a miracle run to the Stanley Cup Final. Even at the time of his interim hiring though, there were questions about how well Ducharme would fit in a head coaching role. Everything went right last year and he was [...]
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. If you ever need injury updates for a specific player, shoot me a message on Twitter @BrennanDeSouza. Josh Manson – [...]
Welcome back to Goldipucks and the Three Skaters, a play on words of the Goldilocks and the Three Bears story. Instead of there being three bowls of porridge though, I cover three skaters and declare one too hot (i.e., doing unsustainably better than he should), another too cold (i.e., doing unsustainably worse), and a third [...]
The Olympic Men’s Ice Hockey kicks off this morning, and to get all you insatiable fantasy geeks your cheat sheet on who you should be keeping an eye on, Peter Harling has you covered. He dives into a whole bunch of NHL relevant prospects that are going to be covered in the games. Just like [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll discuss waiver wire options from the Islanders and Senators – two teams with lots of games left on their schedules. New York Islanders The Islanders have played just 39 games to date, leaving them with a league-leading 43 games left to play. They’ll be much busier than others in [...]
Welcome back to a special edition of Lining Up. This week will examine some hot players with helpful upcoming schedules but with a twist. In the spirit of Olympics, players will be grouped into “teams” from different countries. Let’s dive in. Team Canada Zack Kassian – Ryan Nugent-Hopkins – Zach Hyman Starting with Team Canada [...]
