Lining Up: Raymond’s Cushy Slotting; Durzi’s Power Play Prowess; Rodrigues’s Scorching Start
Welcome back to another edition of Lining Up. This week we will focus on reviewing the first week of hockey for any noteworthy line combinations as well as highlight a few players who have good [...]
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. [...]
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Fantasy Take: Detroit Adds David Perron to Scoring Mix
Detroit continued a very busy day of signings as they got their second-line centre in Andrew Copp, bolstered the back-end by adding Ben Chiarot and Olli Maatta, and then went and got some winger help [...]
Fantasy Take: Vatrano Lands with the Ducks
The Ducks have been fairly quiet through free agency, but their one notable move has been to bring in Frank Vatrano on a three-year deal worth $3.65M per season. Here was my initial thought on [...]
Fantasy Take: Marchment Moves to Dallas
The Dallas Stars have signed forward Mason Marchment to a four-year contract with a $4.5 million AAV. Marchment is capitalizing on a surprising breakout season, scoring 47 points in 54 games (0.87 PTS/GP). He also [...]
Fantasy Take: Colin White Heading To Florida
Colin White was bought out this offseason by the Ottawa Senators, with a large reason being his age. As he is under 26 years old, they can save a lot of money against having to [...]
Fantasy Impact: Chicago Signs Domi, Athanasiou, Blackwell and Stalock
The Chicago Blackhawks have handed one-year contracts to forwards Max Domi, Andreas Athanasiou ($3M each) and goaltender Alex Stalock ($750,000). And a two-year deal at $1.2M AAV for winger Colin Blackwell. The Blackhawks get: boom-or-bust, [...]
Fantasy Take: Capitals Lock-Up Their Goalies with Kuemper and Lindgren
Washington capitalized on their opportunity to reset in net this offseason, and after parting ways with both Vitek Vanecek and Ilya Samsonov, they have landed the big free agency fish in Darcy Kuemper, and will [...]