Looking Ahead: January 10 – January 22
All fantasy owners need help in the short term AND the long term. The Looking Ahead feature identifies one player to plug into lineups in the short term, a second to invest in for the long term, a third to bench for the coming week, and a fourth who will struggle to meet expectations [...]
Ramblings: Gallagher returns; Couture and Gostisbehere injured; Twitter questions – January 10
Brendan Gallagher returned to the lineup for Montreal on Thursday night, a few games following the concussion he received from an inadvertent knee to the head from a teammate. His reintroduction to the lineup pushed Ilya Kovalchuk down to the second like with Max Domi and Nick Suzuki. * Logan Couture will be out [...]
Capped: World Junior performers
Building off of last week, I know one of my resolutions was to not take the World Juniors to heart, as it is much too small of a sample size, however we can still use it as a data-point to add to our existing knowledge. I wanted to look at a few prospects for [...]
Ramblings: Updates for Stephen Johns and Byfuglien; Williams; dive on Cirelli – January 9
Major news for the Dallas Stars as defenceman Stephen Johns was loaned to the AHL for a conditioning assignment. That means he’s finally moved beyond from his post-concussion issues that have kept him out of the NHL for nearly two years. I guess I should be careful with the verbiage and avoid saying he’s [...]
Injury Ward: Coyotes’ Crease, Crosby, Glass, Strome, Hughes, & Couture
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Fantasy Mailbag: How to Deal With Aging Stars, A Kucherov Rebound, & An Alex Tuch Breakout?
After a delay due to the must-read Fantasy Top Ten of the Decade lists that were published the past two weeks, Roos Lets Loose is back, this week with another Mailbag. And although the number of questions I received paled in comparison to letters written to Santa, unlike with Kris Kringle there are no [...]
Ramblings – Shestyorkin Has Arrived, Prospects On The Way, Pettersson, Hronek & Point (Jan. 8)
I know, I know, I can talk about the Canucks a little too much at times. I cover them at DobberProspects. I’ve cheered for them since I was wee. But c’mon, none of us are worthy of Elias Pettersson’s greatness. This is him just noodling around in warm-up Elias Pettersson: The smoothest mf [...]