Although not an official government holiday, Black Friday resulted in a bunch of early games and an unusually high number of games overall for a Friday. Hopefully you remembered to set your lineup in time (I usually set it the night before just in case I lose internet or I have to deal with some [...]
Every year NHL teams have the young players emerge while on their entry-level deals to become effective contributors for their respective squad. This year is not different, there is no shortage of excellent rookie players across the NHL. Whether the player went first overall or fifteenth overall, players find a way to produce given their [...]
We’re at the American Thanksgiving mark of the season and I think this is a good benchmark of who’s who and who is for real in the NHL. It’s also a good point to look forward at who we’ll likely see come playoffs. Last season on this date your division leaders were Florida, Carolina, Minnesota, [...]
New rankings are updated below, and there are some fun movers due to new contracts, early season results, and a few other minor edits. The Injury to Aaron Ekblad has bumped up both Brandon Montour and Gustav Forsling, and even with Ekblad’s return, both should be able to hold onto fantasy relevance, though maybe not [...]
As fans and writers, we sometimes like to pick arbitrary times as opportunities to look back or to group sets of games. For instance, the All-Star break is often used as a halfway point and a comparison for first half/second half splits when it is not in fact the halfway point of the season. Given [...]
There is a lot of data to sift through in the fantasy hockey realm. Just perusing our Frozen Tools alone can have someone lost for hours, creating their own reports and parameters to see who is performing well, who isn’t, signs of regression, changes in usage, or a whole slew of other reasons. One data [...]
One thing that had plagued the Carolina Hurricanes for years was a lack of steady goaltending. That has changed in recent seasons with the additions of Antti Raanta and Frederik Andersen. Both of those guys are free agents after the 2022-23 season, though, so the team needs to look to the future. They did that [...]
Toronto and Arizona have swapped depth skaters to fill some organizational needs. https://twitter.com/CraigSMorgan/status/1595492392106590208 What the Coyotes Get: Size and depth for their AHL team, and a possible future depth forward, for a defenceman that they were going to lose on waivers anyways. Curtis Douglas is not a player that needs to be on the fantasy [...]
The Minnesota Wild have added some grit to their bottom six in a trade with the New York Rangers: https://twitter.com/NYRangers/status/1595492594569469952 What the Rangers Get: A lineup spot for a healthy forward core, and some extra cap space to potentially use at the deadline. What the Wild Get: A fourth-liner who can hit plenty and [...]
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 last article. If you ever need injury updates for a specific player, shoot me a message on [...]
