NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has declared that the 2019-20 NHL regular season is now complete. The NHL will return on an undisclosed future date with 24 teams competing for the Stanley Cup, starting with a 16-team play-in round. For more, see NHL.com. Deciding a winner (if any) in your fantasy league When the NHL season [...]
Gary Bettman had a virtual press conference on Tuesday to announce parts of the NHL’s Return to Play plan. Readers can head to NHL.com to read up on the playoff format, the draft lottery, and a few other details about the RTP. Anyone who has read my Ramblings knows where I stand on this. I [...]
Aside from wishing you all good health, I want to thank readers for continuing to send me questions despite the season being on hold. I suppose the situation we’re in provides us with more time to look at fantasy hockey and our teams and, in turn, ask questions about them. Now all that’s left is [...]
The big news in the world of hockey is the Return to Play directives have been decided. And along with them, the draft lottery and time of the draft. Hallelujah! The league officially welcomed in the 24-team ‘post-season’ plan which will feature 16 squads battling it out in a best-of-five series to earn the right [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, I’ll continue highlighting important fantasy hockey takeaways for each team in the Eastern Conference. I tried to include information from the 2019-2020 campaign that may be forgotten during this extended offseason. Hopefully, these reminders will be useful when NHL action eventually resumes. This is the second of four installments, where [...]
We’re starting to get some details about the NHL roll-out for playoffs. We saw the 24-team format (in some manner) get approved last week while the actual protocols for returning to practice are starting to leak out. Readers can just flip through this tweet thread from Sportsnet’s Chris Johnston for more details. Limited contact, a [...]
In part seven of our look at the Western Conference GMs, we will look at future Hall of Famer Ken Holland who was the GM of the Detroit Red Wings for almost 22 years, the assistant GM before that for three years and the director of amateur scouting for seven years before that. He has [...]
In one-year leagues, one of the categories that I specifically aim to win is shots. My thinking on this is pretty basic. A player who takes plenty of shots is more likely to score, more likely to be getting lots of ice time and power-play time and more likely to be playing with other elite [...]
The Salary Cap League Rankings are here! All of the top 200 skaters. **** Here are the top 200 skaters to own in your salary cap league - May 25th edition. As mentioned in the last rankings set, Cale Makar has indeed surpassed Elias Pettersson for the pole position. We have a surprise defenceman cracking [...]
Announcement: The Fantasy Prospects Report (13th Edition) will be released on Friday June 12. I have decided to go ahead and release this on that date because I didn’t want to delay the announcement any longer. If the Draft is on June 26 then you will be able to use this with plenty of time [...]
