Wild West: Western Conference – Defense Tiers
This week and next, Brennan Des and I will tier defense and forwards from the East and West. I will start with the West today on defense but just a reminder that these tiers are [...]
Top-200 Cap League Skater Rankings – September 2023
We’re in the middle of training camp, and that also means fantasy draft season. To reiterate, the Rating column below is closer to how I would try to draft all of these players, while the [...]
Top 10 potential first-time 70-point defensemen
Each preseason, one of my favorite columns to write tries to point out potential first-time 70-point players. Last year saw eight defensemen reach the 70-point mark. It could have potentially been 10 players to reach [...]
Ramblings: Thoughts on Fantilli, Thrun, Benson, Nikishin, Andrae, Kovalenko, Bedard and More … (Sep 25)
The 18th annual Fantasy Guide is available for immediate download in the shop. Last week, camps opened! The Guide and Draft List were updated about a dozen times each. Sometimes the projections were tweaked, but [...]
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Eastern Edge: First Seasons In New Locales, Including Rakell And Mrazek
This week’s Eastern Edge is the sixth and final part of a series looking at how players performed in new surroundings this season. We’ll discuss players that joined new teams ahead of the 2021-2022 regular [...]
Advanced Metrics: How to Read the Charts
As an extension of our earlier article ‘Analytics – What to Use for Fantasy Hockey and Why’, we go over a couple of important analytics charts that are provided in our Frozen Tools section. First, [...]
Ramblings: Contracts for Liljegren and Kiersted; Point, Colton, Hedman, Cirelli, and More on Tampa – June 28
Timothy Liljegren has signed a two-year extension with the Toronto Maple Leafs, locking him up for his age-23 and age-24 seasons. Liljegren is coming off his first full-ish season with the Leafs, totalling 23 points [...]
Fantasy Impact: Chicago Hires Luke Richardson as New Head Coach
The Chicago Blackhawks have hired former NHL defenseman Luke Richardson as their new Head Coach. Richardson was a big (6-4, 210 pounds), tough stay-at-home defenseman who played 1417 career NHL games and compiled 2055 penalty [...]
Wild West: Minnesota Wild – Organization Review
The Minnesota Wild had their best-ever regular season with 113 points on 53 wins in 2021-22. It wasn’t enough as they lost in the first round for the sixth time in the last six times [...]
Top 10 UFAs That Will See a Big Raise
Never be surprised by dumb decisions a GM will make. That goes for both the NHL and your fantasy league. NHL GMs love to overspend on the free-agent market in an effort to show their [...]