As we inch anticipatingly closer to the NHL’s March 8 trade deadline, hockey fans and NHL bettors can expect the next two-to-three weeks of action to have a frenetic pace - both on and off the ice. Teams usually utilize the trade deadline leadup to get deals done ahead of the cutoff, avoiding the pitfalls [...]
Tonight’s matchups What a wonderful collection of games to occur at 7 or 8 PM! Dallas at Carolina, Boston at Vancouver, and Toronto at Colorado. It will be hard to choose one, and I suspect many of us will be flipping channels. Of these, my recommendation will be to pass on the Stars/Canes contest. Dallas [...]
The minor trade on Thursday involving Emil Bemstrom and Alex Nylander should barely generate a ripple in most fantasy leagues. Yet since I was discussing it with at least a couple people in private conversations, I’ll share my thoughts here. With the injury (and possible trade) of Jake Guentzel, Bemstrom is in a similar boat [...]
Welcome back all! Decent week of hockey thus far with some more good matchups to carry us right into the weekend. Ah yes, the weekend…we’re almost there everyone. Let’s get everyone in a good spot for fantasy before the weekend starts, as well as going into next week’s matchups. The Immediate Fix (Grab this guy [...]
Today on Frozen Tools Forensics we are continuing our look at a player's age. Last week we looked the young players who have been performing well recently and today we are flipping the script and looking at those still productive older players. With the younger players, we looked at smaller sample sizes of positive production [...]
Colorado got a key piece to their lineup back, though it’s not Gabriel Landeskog or Valeri Nichushkin (yet). Logan O’Connor returned to the lineup for Colorado on Thursday night, having missed four games. O’Connor went into that game third on the team in 5-on-5 goals with nine, and he has the lowest on-ice goals against [...]
Building upon our journey through the intricate world of hockey analytics from an earlier article, this article serves as a continuation of our initial exploration, and delves further into the nuanced metrics that reveal the hidden layers of player performance. With a foundation laid in understanding expected goals-for percentages, as well as high-, medium-, and [...]
Welcome back my CapFriendlies! Anyone in for some trade speculation talk? This week I found myself making up different trade scenarios, which to be honest is par for the course for me, and with the deadline looming we’re bound to see some movement here shortly. This deadline is either going to be a one with [...]
There was good news out of Toronto as goalie Joseph Woll was sent to the AHL for a conditioning stint, the next step on his way back from an ankle injury that has kept him out of the lineup for two and a half months. How many games he ultimately plays down there remains to [...]
Welcome to the newest edition of the Injury Ward. Here you will find the latest NHL injury updates and also which players may benefit from these situations. My name is Blake Creamer and I will be tackling this topic every single week. I want this article to work for you, so if there are players [...]
