Welcome back to this week’s edition of Analytics Advantage! As we approach the midpoint of the NHL season, the stakes are higher than ever for fantasy hockey managers seeking to maximize their rosters. This week, we focus on five players with distinct storylines: Alex Vlasic, Victor Olofsson, Fabian Zetterlund, Nazem Kadri, and Brent Burns. Through [...]
The holiday trade freeze has now begun and will be lifted on December 28. That means there won’t be any new trades to discuss for about a week. No worries. There’s enough to discuss from a busy Thursday night, including the fallout of a couple of recent deals. - With two assists on Thursday, Nikita [...]
Good day, DFS squad! I played in a couple tournaments Tuesday, went 0-2 there, and really wanted to get in on some of the games last night, but was too busy and wasn’t able to do so. I will say though, the Toronto/Dallas game was entertaining, and the two periods I watched of Florida/Minnesota was [...]
Welcome back to all! On Tuesday night, I found myself skipping around going from game-to-game and landed for a bit on the Buffalo Sabres/Montreal Candiens game. Why? Well, I have a good friend who’s a Sabres fan and, as a bonus, I currently roster Juraj Slafkovsky in fantasy. As I’m watching (Sabres feed), the tone [...]
Columbus forward Yegor Chinakhov has missed three weeks with an upper-body injury. It is unfortunate for him, but also because Kent Johnson has missed 14 games and Dmitri Voronkov has missed nine. In fact, the team has only had those three, and Kirill Marchenko, in the lineup for 3/32 games this season. It is a [...]
Between the Rangers losing 11 out of their last 14 games, Jacob Trouba being traded, management making it clear that New York was open for business, and Kaapo Kakko’s comments critical of the way the coaching staff was handling healthy scratches, it was clear there was another shoe to drop on the trade front. That [...]
Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening. Happy Holidays, and welcome to the Injury Ward. My name is Logan Clarkson and every Wednesday I will be chauffeuring you through injury news and updates from around the NHL. I’ll do my best to offer useful analysis and opinion as it relates to fantasy throughout. As always [...]
Welcome back to Goldipucks and the Three Skaters, a play on words of the Goldilocks and the Three Bears story. Instead of there being three bowls of porridge though, I cover three skaters and declare one too hot (i.e., doing unsustainably better than he should), another too cold (i.e., doing unsustainably worse), and a third [...]
Patrik Laine scored his first hat trick in 23 months against the Sabres last night as part of a six-goal onslaught but the Habs. That ups him to six goals in seven games. He won't keep that pace up as his shooting percentage normalizes, but the assists will click up a bit too to balance. [...]
Good day, DFS’ers! How’d everyone’s weekend plays go? I missed out on cash by a mile on Saturday, but that said, I did make my lineup in I’d say a minute in a half. These things happen. This is an interesting slate tonight because we don’t have Edmonton, Colorado, Toronto, or Minnesota, on this slate [...]
