Ramblings: Sharks Take Home Lottery Win; Reichel Signs; Round Two Picks & More (May 8)
The NHL’s draft lottery yesterday was anti-climactic, with the San Jose Sharks winning the first overall selection, and the Chicago Blackhawks winning the second overall pick – exactly where they were slotted before the lottery. [...]
Fantasy Take: Green Hired to Coach Ottawa Senators
With the Ottawa Senators firing head coach DJ Smith in December and moving Jacques Martin into that role, the search for a new head coach effectively started before Christmas. With so much turnover in that [...]
Ramblings: Casey and Sandin-Pelikka Sign; Bowness Retires; Reviewing the Seasons of Keller, Schmaltz, Cooley, Durzi, Ingram, and Others – May 7
Winnipeg Jets head coach Rick Bowness announced his retirement on Monday. Bowness was Winnipeg’s coach for these last two seasons, leading them to the playoffs twice. He had a Cup Final run with Dallas in [...]
Stars On The Rise: Top-10 Players Who Have Boosted Their Fantasy Value This Postseason
In the fantasy hockey world, it’s never too early to look ahead at draft season to start pondering and plotting moves to get a leg up on other GMs who might be slacking. Digging into [...]
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The Journey: Early Playoff Impacts From the 2020 Draft Class
Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. *** Zooming in on players aged 25 and younger, here is [...]
Ramblings: DeSmith Steps Up, Ovechkin Struggles, Hyman Hot, Hellebuyck Not (Apr 27)
It’s all playoff pucks today. I’ll use that term because it was the name of the very first fantasy hockey article that I wrote way back in 2006 for a website that no longer exists. [...]
Frozen Tool Forensics: Most Valuable Fantasy Hockey Centers
We won’t be covering the NHL playoffs blow by blow in this column, though we will touch on teams a bit as they get knocked out in each round. For this week, and for several [...]
Analytics Advantage: The Western Conference Playoff Teams
Welcome back to the follow up to last week’s article, with this week being about the West and what they bring to the table. We are about 2-3 games into each series, and it is [...]
Ramblings: Tkachuk Leads Cats; Vlasic Extended; Anaheim’s Season and Mintyukov, Vatrano, Gibson, and More – April 26
Chicago has signed defenceman Alex Vlasic to a six-year deal with an AAV of $4.6M per season. I wrote about him yesterday when discussing the Blackhawks so read that for more on him. In [...]
Ramblings: Updates on Pesce and Bennett; Boston’s Power Play Powers Play; Chicago’s Season Including, Kurashev, Korchinski, and Mrazek – April 25
It was announced that Carolina defenceman Brett Pesce is likely to miss the first round of the playoffs. Carolina has a 2-0 series lead and has been in command of the game, if not the [...]