Capped: Point-per-dollar early in this season
This week we’re going to jump back into analyzing players on a cost-per-point basis. Two weeks ago, we covered some of the top performers, and some of them have already come back to earth a little. With the season almost a month old already, players who are slumping have given us a large enough [...]
Ramblings: Malkin inching closer; Hedman injured; Koivula called up; Four weeks in – October 31
There has been some news on the Dustin Byfuglien front. Bob McKenzie reports he had surgery on his ankle, taking care of lingering effects of a high-ankle sprain from last season. It’s believed the ankle problem was part of what was bothering Big Buff, so what this all means for the future, only Byfuglien knows. [...]
Injury Ward: Malkin Ahead of Schedule, Landeskog, Forsberg, Zibenajad, & Hedman
Here’s the latest news in the world of NHL injuries! To see injury updates from around the league as soon as they’re made public, follow me on Twitter @BrennanDeSouza! Hampus Lindholm – Has been skating but sat out of Tuesday’s game against the Jets because of a lower-body injury. Coach Dallas Eakins is [...]
Fantasy Hockey Mailbag: The Art of Selling High
Welcome to the first mailbag of the 2019-20 season. Big thanks to Dobber and his twitter followers, as they were the source for most questions being answered in this installment. Sorry I couldn’t answer them all, as I had to stop before the column grew too huge. Check out the end of the column [...]
Ramblings: The Rangers Rebuild, The Michigan(s), Avs Injuries, Ovechkin, Gusev, & Meier (Oct. 30)
Let’s start this off with a goal of the year candidate from the SHL. Canucks 2019 second-rounder, Nils Höglander decided to do the most impressive lacrosse-style goal I've ever seen on Tuesday. While under pressure, he banks the puck to himself off of the back of the net and has the presence of mind [...]
Eastern Edge: Early returns from the East’s top lines
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll take a look at how top lines in the Eastern Conference have been performing so far this season. I used our Line Combination Tool to determine which players have been deployed together most frequently since the beginning of the year. As a result, some of the combinations you [...]
Ramblings: Tarasenko out for months; Penguins updates; Perlini traded; spooky stats – October 29
Some very bad injury news for Vladimir Tarasenko, as the team revealed that he will have surgery on his left shoulder and it appears he’ll miss the rest of the regular season. They are officially saying he’ll be re-evaluated in five months so that leaves some wiggle room, but not much. All that from [...]
Wild West: Power-Play Potential
This week we are taking a quick trip down Power Play Lane. To start I took a look at the expected goals per 60 min numbers for teams on the power play (courtesy Evolving Wild). In a rather fortuitous coincidence, the top four teams were all western teams (see table below). In order to [...]
Top 10 Underappreciated Starts
While much of the talk in the first few weeks of the fantasy season has revolved around big names, there have been plenty of players who aren’t receiving their much-deserved love. Which is a shame, because there are plenty of leagues where there’s a lot of production being wasted on the waiver wire. There [...]