Ramblings: Ranking the Top 5 Goalies in Fantasy Hockey (Jul 21)
Single-season fantasy drafts won’t start for about another two months (or more), but in the dog days of summer you might already find yourself preparing. It’s never too early, I suppose. For example, in my [...]
Ramblings: Samsonov Arbitration; Howden and Vilardi Sign; League-Wide Power Play Changes and Impact On Forward Production – July 20
The march toward arbitration continues and there are players that may end up there, though most of these cases are often resolved beforehand. One interesting case is that of Toronto goalie lya Samsonov. Even with [...]
Fantasy Hockey Poll: Playoff Scoring Barometers
After running polls as part of this column for quite a while, I’ve been able to learn which have worked and which haven’t. For those that do, I’ve turned them into annual polls, and this [...]
Ramblings: Secondary Power Play Defencemen, Including Clarke, Sanderson, Pionk, Barron, and More – July 19
Hey, everyone. Alex is off for today and I have his Ramblings covered. He'll be back before long but readers have to deal with me again today. * My Ramblings yesterday discussed power-play production in [...]
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Fantasy Take: Oilers Fire Tippett
The Edmonton Oilers did what all bad teams do: blame the coach. Dave Tippett was fired as coach of the Oilers on Thursday morning with Jay Woodcroft taking over in his place. The Oilers are, [...]
Capped: Trending Goaltenders in Husso, Smith, Swayman, and Talbot
In this week’s installment of Capped we’re going to be talking about goalies who are trending in the right direction. That could mean they’re playing well currently, it could mean that their overall team situation [...]
Ramblings: Rask Retires; Martin St. Louis Hired; Matthews Update; Marchand Suspended – February 10
Tuukka Rask has retired from hockey. The hope for the Boston Bruins had been to have Jeremy Swayman and Linus Ullmark handle NHL duties while Rask healed from his hip surgery. Then, Rask would return, [...]
Fantasy Take: Montreal Replaces Ducharme With Interim Head Coach Martin St. Louis
The hapless Canadiens fired their head coach just months after he was at the helm for a miracle run to the Stanley Cup Final. Even at the time of his interim hiring though, there were [...]
Injury Ward: Teravainen; MacKinnon; Vrana; Batherson; Eichel & More
Here’s the latest injury news from across the NHL! If you’re looking for information about a specific player and don’t see their name in this article, there probably haven’t been any significant updates about their progress since our [...]
Goldipucks and the Three Skaters: Tage Thompson, Jesper Bratt & Ivan Provorov
Welcome back to Goldipucks and the Three Skaters, a play on words of the Goldilocks and the Three Bears story. Instead of there being three bowls of porridge though, I cover three skaters and declare [...]