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 [...]
UPCOMING GAMES
Starting Goalies
Top Skater Views
Top Goalie Profile Views
LINE COMBOS
Top 10 Potential Second-Half Players
Now that most teams are at the halfway point of the season, this is a great time to try to figure out which players might have big second halves. There are a few different ways [...]
Ramblings – A Couple of Sleepers, Boldy’s Outlook, Concern Over Mittelstadt and more (Jan 31)
The Midseason Fantasy Hockey Guide was released on Friday (January 14). You can buy it here and download it right away. This will still be helpful until the All-Star break this coming weekend. * I [...]
Geek of the Week: More All-Star Break Preparation
Well, it didn’t take Evander Kane long to make an impact with the Oilers (and hopefully your fantasy team)! As mentioned in my article last week, we are quickly approaching the NHL All-Star Game weekend [...]
Ramblings: Kane Debut, Bunting Hat Trick, Huberdeau New Scoring Leader (Jan 30)
Controversy aside, Evander Kane’s debut with the Oilers on Saturday should be considered a success. Kane opened the scoring in the first period, then finished with a plus-2 and three shots and four hits as [...]
The Journey: January Sink-Or-Swim (Valimaki, Yamamoto, N. Robertson)
Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. At the end of last month, this column did a sink-or-swim [...]
Saturday’s Game Picks: Coyotes Won’t Be Ugly
Not a bad start for me last week with four correct picks out of six, including my gold and my silver picks. And yet, all I can think about is how close I was to [...]