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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Fantasy Take: New Jersey Acquires Vanecek From Washington
Following the goaltending performances (or lack thereof) from Ilya Samsonov and Vitek Vanecek in 2021-22, namely in the postseason, it seemed likely they would shake up their goaltending. They did exactly that, as they traded [...]
Fantasy Take: Detroit Hustles St. Louis For Husso
One of the big goalie storylines this offseason was the future of St. Louis goalie Ville Husso. He had largely outplayed Jordan Binnington all season but with the latter’s large contract, Husso was likely to [...]
Fantasy Take: Mrazek Moving To Chicago
We got a partial answer as to what the Toronto Maple Leafs will be doing with their goaltending this offseason as the team’s Cup window progresses. It appears that Jack Campbell will test free agency [...]
Ramblings: Draft Day Surprises! Slafkovsky/Nemec Go First and Second; Dach and Romanov Traded; Middleton; Boqvist – July 8
The NHL Draft started off by answering the question that had become very prevalent over the last few weeks: Shane Wright or Juraj Slafkovsky? It seemed Wright was destined for the number-1 pick up until [...]
Fantasy Take: Montreal Trades Romanov To The Islanders, Acquire Dach From Chicago
We had a significant trade made after the third overall selection, and both involved the Draft host team of Montreal. They went out and got a young centre they had been looking for while sending [...]
Fantasy Take: Alex DeBrincat Off To Ottawa For Draft Picks
With the Chicago Blackhawks looking ahead to a rebuild, there were some tough choices they would have to make this offseason. One name that kept cropping up was that of star scoring winger Alex DeBrincat, [...]