Eastern Edge: Bold Predictions for the 2023-24 Campaign
With a new season just underway, we’ll use this week’s Eastern Edge to predict an aspect of each team’s 23-24 campaign. Boston Bruins - Pavel Zacha finishes second in team scoring This is a slightly [...]
Ramblings: Bedard’s Debut; Notes on Korchinski, Paul, Parssinen, and Other Opening-Day Tidbits (Oct 11)
My favourite bit of news to kick off yesterday was the record that Sidney Crosby, Kris Letang, and Evgeni Malkin were breaking: https://twitter.com/TaylorHaasePGH/status/1711604049848541426 Bryan Rust opened the scoring for the Penguins for the third season [...]
Lining Up: Important Lineup Notes for the First Week Including DeAngelo, Chabot, Howden, and Donato
Welcome back to another edition of Lining Up and Happy-Start-Of-Hockey Day! With the NHL kicking the season off tonight, today will focus on teams updating the notes from last two Lining Up articles for teams [...]
15 Fearless Forecasts for the 2023-24 NHL Season
I don’t normally dwell on how my prior season’s Fearless Forecasts fared, admittedly because usually far fewer actually pan out versus those that don’t. But as can be seen from my May recap column, I [...]
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Ramblings: Kakko, Joseph, Bear Sign Extensions; Breaking Down Tkachuk/Huberdeau in Fantasy (July 29)
Kaapo Kakko has signed a two-year extension with the Rangers with an average annual value of $2.1 million. Kakko finished the 2021-22 season with 18 points in 43 games, which would have been a 34-point [...]
Capped: More Signings Discussion, Including Niederreiter and Dubois
Like the last couple of weeks, this week will be centered around free agents that have signed new contracts, whether they signed with a new team or their previous team they are eligible to be [...]
Ramblings: Thoughts on Norris, Sharangovich, Tolvanen, and Hagel – July 28
The Sophomore Slump is something we’re all familiar with. That a young player might struggle in their second year in a pro sports league is a notion that intuitively makes sense – teams and players [...]
Fantasy Hockey Poll: Playoff Scoring Barometers
It’s usually sound advice to not put too much stock on a skater’s performance during the Stanley Cup playoffs, what with it being a smaller sample size plus games being played under conditions less similar [...]
Ramblings: How to Manage Goalies in Various Leagues (Jul 27)
Goalies can be so tough to manage and predict year to year. It has gotten to the point that I will not invest heavily in a goaltender, because the ones like Andrei Vasilevskiy and Igor [...]
Eastern Edge: Claude Giroux’s Outlook in Ottawa
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll take a look at how Claude Giroux’s arrival affects the landscape in Ottawa. Last season was a tale of two cities for Claude Giroux. Although the 34-year-old forward had [...]