Frozen Tools Forensics: Hot starts and sustainable point paces
Here are the top 50 players in scoring, ranked by their current pace to end the season. The Pace tool is available in the Frozen Tools Report Generator. Since scoring has increased overall from an average of 3.01/g per team in 2018-2019 to 3.08/g this season, we should see quite a few players reach [...]
Looking Ahead: Coyle, Dach, Olofsson, and more
All fantasy owners need help in the short term AND the long term. The Looking Ahead feature identifies one player to plug into lineups in the short term, a second to invest in for the long term, a third to bench for the coming week, and a fourth who will struggle to meet expectations [...]
Ramblings: Injuries around the league; game recaps; Buchnevich – November 22
For a second straight game, Claude Giroux was on Morgan Frost’s wing. When Frost was called up, I mused that this was (finally, for real this time) the end of Giroux as a centre. Maybe that will hold up. James van Riemsdyk, by the way, started the game on the fourth line. * I [...]
Capped: Looking for cheap, buy-low opportunities
Everyone needs help in fantasy, and by this point in the season, you generally know where the holes are on your roster. I also find that this is usually the best time to start trading, as other teams have formed their opinions on who they want to keep, and who they are willing to [...]
Top 50 Fantasy Prospect Goaltenders – Fall 2019
Here are the top prospect goaltenders to own in fantasy hockey - Fall edition! Every spring and fall I sift through the 200 goaltenders on my template and dig deeper into the prospects. It's a different rating system than it is with the regular list, as more emphasis is on upside and the team's [...]
Ramblings: Babcock fired; Schultz injured; Olofsson demoted; Barrie; Pavelski; Couture – November 21
The Toronto Maple Leafs fired Mike Babcock on Wednesday afternoon, following two years of playoff disappointments and a start to this season that saw Toronto with nine wins in 23 games, sporting an expected goals percentage just slightly ahead of Detroit’s. Sheldon Keefe has been named as his replacement. I really don’t have a [...]
Fantasy Impact: Toronto Fires Mike Babcock
The writing had been on the wall, but on Wednesday afternoon we finally saw the other shoe drop. After a 9-10-4 start that had the Toronto Maple Leafs flailing outside the Eastern Conference playoff picture, the club opted to let go of the highest-paid coach in the game. With him goes a legacy of [...]
Injury Ward: Kucherov, Marner, Bergeron, Letang, Klingberg, & Krug
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 – Isn’t with the team as they travel through Florida to face the Panthers on Thursday and Lightning on Saturday. There haven’t been [...]
Top 100 Keeper League Goaltenders – November 2019
Here are the top goaltenders to own in your keeper leagues - November edition! Value goaltenders by Tiers, not by ranking. Ranking is there for splitting hairs, but no formula is perfect. A goalie within a tier is as good as another. With the fluctuation of goaltender values, generally speaking you should not [...]