The big news before Game 7 was that Joe Pavelski returned to the lineup for San Jose for the first time since the Vegas series. There may have been questions about how ready he would be for a game of this magnitude, but the fact that he scored a trademark redirection in the first [...]
Welcome back to another installment of “Goldipucks and the Three Skaters.” For first time readers, or those needing a refresher, this column is a play on the Goldilocks and the Three Bears story, except instead of there being three bowls of porridge I’m covering three skaters and declaring one too hot (i.e., doing unsustainably [...]
The first game seven of the second-round culminated on Tuesday evening in Missouri. And I'll be frank, it was almost exclusively the Blues dictating play and Ben Bishop accepting the pepper with a spicy smile. Vince Dunn got things going in the first frame with a seeing-eye wrister from the point to [...]
It was certainly an interesting season in the Metro for the center position, more so than any other division the Metro looks like it has a few players ripe to rebound next season. The crazy stat of the week for this division is that Sebastian Aho, Evgeni Malkin, and Evgeny Kuznetsov all shot below [...]
Here are the Top 100 defensemen to own in your points-only keeper leagues - May edition! More tweaks this month, mostly based on playoff performances. As always, players ranked between +/- 5.0 rating points should be considered equal value and at that point become a matter of team needs and/or personal bias. Click [...]
Philadelphia hired Alain Vigneault to be their coach a little while ago and have continued to add to their coaching staff. Monday, it was announced that both Mike Yeo and Michel Therrien will be joining the staff. Therrien was last in the NHL as the head coach for the Habs in the 2016-17 season [...]
Here are the Top 300 skaters to own in your points-only keeper leagues, May edition! More tweaks this month, mostly based on playoff performances. As always, players ranked between +/- 5.0 rating points should be considered equal value and at that point become a matter of team needs and/or personal bias. Click any [...]
Fantasy Impact: The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed undrafted 24-year-old winger Ilya Mikheyev to a one-year contract worth a reported $925,000 (the maximum entry-level contract). The Leafs get: one of the better goal-scoring wingers in the KHL, and a player who has not yet entered his prime. Mikheyev followed up a 19-goal season [...]
For part three of this series we are going to look at Right Wings in the West. We will be using the Fantasy Hockey Geek ranking tool to get a ranking that combines all of a player’s stats for the searched categories. For the purposes of this series, the ranks are based on [...]
