Hey everybody, we are heading down the final stretch of the season and I thought now might be a nice time to reflect on a few players, specifically rookies. It’s been a good year for rookies this season and there are a handful of standouts. I think more and more it’s becoming a young player’s [...]
You might not have projected it before the season, but Buffalo’s top line of Tage Thompson – Jeff Skinner – Alex Tuch is fantasy relevant. Yes, all three players. Tuch has scored at a point per game since he arrived. Skinner is already 20 points ahead of his production from all of last season. Then [...]
The Toronto Maple Leafs have traded Nick Ritchie and a conditional second-round pick to Arizona for Ryan Dzingel and Ilya Lyubushkin. Ritchie, who was signed to a two-year contract with a $2.5 million cap hit this past offseason, was demoted to the AHL in early February. He had scored just two goals in 33 games [...]
Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. This week, we’ll be taking a closer look at what to expect from the Edmonton Oilers for the rest of this year and the coming few seasons. The addition of Evander [...]
Now that Valentine’s Day, the one day of the year where I feel even lonelier than I usually do, is behind us, there’s nothing but excitement left. This excitement grows bigger and bigger as we approach what should be known as the true day of love, the trade deadline. This year’s swap season should garner [...]
We’ve arrived at one of the best stretches of the season to play NHL DFS. Not necessarily because of the NHL schedule or the team’s matchups, but it’s the NBA All-Star break. While you might be wondering how that has any effect on NHL DFS, and rightfully so, the truth of the matter is that [...]
Our Frozen Tools Forensics writer Chris Kane profiled 4th Year Breakout players in his article this week. The most prominent name on that list is Andrei Svechnikov, who continued to add to his point total on Friday. Svechnikov scored a pair of power-play goals to go with an assist in the Hurricanes’ 5-3 win over [...]
Clubs have started to come back from various breaks, as well as playing in games that were scheduled around Christmas time. Your fantasy lineup may vary from day to day without much regularity in it, but let’s try to navigate some spots to help get ahead this week.The Immediate Fix (Grab this guy and use [...]
To start this week, here are the top point scorers over the last month. NamePosTeamGPGAPTSJOHNNY GAUDREAULCGY1351924MITCHELL MARNERRTOR11111122MATTHEW TKACHUKRCGY1371522SIDNEY CROSBYCPIT1491322DYLAN LARKINCDET1291019AUSTON MATTHEWSCTOR1181119MATS ZUCCARELLORMIN1141418ANDREI SVECHNIKOVLCAR1381018MARK SCHEIFELECWPG138917JOE PAVELSKIRDAL1361117 It is an interesting list. No Connor McDavid. No Leon Draisaitl. Auston Matthews, check. Mitch Marner, sure. Sidney Crosby, sure. Johnny Gaudreau, Matthew Tkachuk, Mark Scheifele, Joe Pavelski, I mean [...]
Under Dominique Ducharme in 2021-22, Cole Caufield scored just one goal in 30 games. Under Martin St. Louis, Caufield has four goals in four games, including his game-tying and game-winning goals on Thursday. The obvious take would be to assume that the 5-8 St. Louis would have a soft spot for the 5-7 Caufield, but [...]
