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 [...]
Capped: Impact of Current Contracts from Campbell, Demko, and Jarry
Hello and welcome back my Salary Cap-friendlies! We haven’t really touched on goaltenders too much in Capped and there’s sort of a reason for that. Outside of Sergei Bobrovsky they mostly earn salaries and off [...]
Ramblings: Addison/Bogosian Traded; Updates on Shesterkin, Duchene, and Cozens; Changes in Shot Ratios – November 9
The Minnesota Wild made some adjustments to their blueline on Wednesday by trading Calen Addison to the San Jose Sharks, then turning around and getting Zach Bogosian from Tampa Bay. I wrote up a bit [...]
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Goldipucks and the Three Skaters: Cale Makar, Nikita Kucherov & Aleksander Barkov
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 [...]
Ramblings: Draft Notes on the Top 100 Players by ADP (Sept 14)
In the last bit of the NHL offseason before we start to get real news, real lines, and actual games I figured I would do a preliminary run-through of all of the top-100 players of [...]
Eastern Edge: Inflated ADPs for Giroux, DeAngelo, and Bennett
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll discuss a few players to avoid because of their high ADPs (average draft positions) in upcoming fantasy drafts. Keep in mind, Yahoo’s ADPs aren’t the most accurate at this [...]
Western Conference Outlook – Part 1
Just as the Eastern Conference saw many teams add key players over the off-season, the Western half of the NHL isn’t looking like the same 16 teams that started out last season. 2021 saw the [...]
Ramblings: Avs Sign Rodrigues; Outlooks for Hartman, Meier, Danault, and Burakovsky – September 13
This is the last week before training camps start, though there are rookie camps that will be happening all week long across the league. For anyone that even pays cursory attention to social media for [...]
Fantasy Impact: Avalanche Sign Evan Rodrigues
The Colorado Avalanche have signed versatile forward Evan Rodrigues to a one-year contract worth $2M. The Avs get: a solid middle-sixer who can slot in at any forward position. Rodrigues truly flourished with the Penguins [...]