Ramblings: Dach and Boldy Injuries; Oilers and Bruins Shuffle Lines; Phillips Douses Flames; Detroit Dominates – October 17
The biggest hope and goal for Montreal this 2023-24 regular season was to see progress from its bevy of young players. To do that, the young players would need to stay healthy as the team [...]
Wild West – Early Power Play Deployment by Team
It is very early in the 2023-24 season, but we can see which players from each team have been given opportunities on the first or second unit of the power play. Some teams split 50/50, [...]
Top 10 Way-Too-Early Power-Play Takeaways
The NHL season is less than a week old, but that won't stop fantasy general managers from jumping to conclusions, ready to drop studs off to a slow start for hot third- and fourth-line players. [...]
Ramblings: Early Thoughts on Samoskevich, Minten, Vatrano, the Flyers’ Kids, Brady and More… (Oct 16)
Do you have a late draft? Pick up my 18th annual Fantasy Guide here. The last update was October 12, so a couple of days into the regular season. * And now that the season [...]
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Frozen Tool Forensics: Riding the Goalie Carousel Part 2
This week we are finishing out the journey around the league’s goaltenders. For a full list of all of the offseason moves and their fantasy impacts take a look here. As a brief reminder of [...]
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 [...]