Welcome to May, a month in which we are usually well into the Stanley Cup playoffs. Yet here we are. I know, I shouldn’t remind you. Former NHLer Georges Laraque announced on Twitter that he has been diagnosed with COVID-19. All the best to the former Oilers and Canadiens enforcer. https://twitter.com/GeorgesLaraque/status/1255980562952617984 On a lighter note… [...]
In the Keeping Karlsson Fantasy Hockey Podcast's 31 Beats series, Elan and Brian are on a league-wide odyssey to explore the fantasy present and future landscapes of each of the NHL's 31 teams, gathering info by interviewing the people who know them best: beat writers! *** Today, AZCentral's Richard Morin takes a break from [...]
A friend of mine recently asked me whether there was any way to measure if the NHL was faster and less physical now than it was 10, 20, or 30 years ago. We all know that the number of fights has plummeted, but is there any other data that we can go on? And what [...]
Sometimes, all it takes is for a player to get into the right situation. All it takes is the right line mates to bring a player from being somewhat obscure to being one of the most valuable players in all of fantasy. There’s one guy who fit that bill last year and we’re going to [...]
They say absence makes the heart grow fonder; but it also helps fill the mailbag, as I got more inquiries this past month than sometimes when the season was still going! As per usual, I’ll do my best to answer the questions while providing advice useful to poolies even if they don’t own the specific [...]
There’s been a lot of talk around when, where and how the NHL will conduct their entry draft. Normally, we’d have already had the lottery draw occur and know exactly who is selecting where (amongst the top 20 or so teams anyway). Of course, with the games on hold versus being cancelled, we cannot accurately [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll take a look at how ice time affected offensive production this year. I’ll highlight players that performed well when trusted with more ice time than last season, as well as players whose production suffered while seeing a reduced role. In the tables below, I’ve listed players that saw a [...]
It sucks to say, given that we should be enjoying some stellar second-round playoff hockey right now, but we need to start looking to the future. We need to start preparing for the 2020-21 season given the uncertainty with this year right now. Whether the 2019-20 season finishes, whether we have playoffs, and whether 2020-21 [...]
In part three of fifteen in our look at GM ratings in the West, we will focus on Calgary and GM Brad Treliving who chose a life of hockey over pizza. Before being hired in Calgary as the GM, Treliving was the Assistant GM in Arizona from July 2007 to April 2014. He was unemployed [...]
Every few days, it feels as if there is a new plan on how the NHL is going to continue its season. The latest rumours have the NHL having its season continue in four cities. However, you can put me in the camp of this season being wiped out. I don’t think we will see [...]
