The New York Islanders gave Mathew Barzal an ‘injured non-roster’ designation on Monday, per Andrew Gross. He currently has a knee injury and remember that he had knee surgery in February of 2025. His designation means he did not pass his physical at training camp, so this is clearly a lingering knee issue, which is [...]
The Columbus Blue Jackets finally signed forward Adam Fantilli, extending him for six years with an average annual value of $13.75-million. The contract runs through the end of his age-27 season, and now he’s got a few days to get up to speed before the regular season starts. * Missing a day for rest in [...]
There was one very interesting news tidbit on Monday as far as lineups are concerned, and that was the Nashville Predators having Matthew Wood on the top power-play unit, per Max Herz. It wasn’t Jonathan Marchessault, or the newly-acquired Mavrik Bourque, but Wood who was the fourth forward after Steven Stamkos, Filip Forsberg, and Ryan [...]
Same scoreboard, different engines The Dallas Stars scored 273 goals last season and the Anaheim Ducks scored 265, and they got there from opposite ends of the shot chart. Dallas took the fewest 5v5 attempts in the league (five a side, both goalies in net, and in regulation time), 49.4 per 60 minutes against a [...]
We got an update on New York Islanders forward Mathew Barzal as Stefen Rosner reports that Barzal may still be ready for the first game of the regular season. It still isn’t a great sign that a player with Barzal’s injury history is missing training camp, but the news certainly could be a lot worse. [...]
As we have seen in recent weeks with players like Zeev Buium, Fraser Minten, and Braeden Bowman, teams are trying to get ahead of their RFAs by signing them to long-term extensions a bit early (also because of the new 7-year limit which kicks in this week), which is what the Buffalo Sabres did with [...]
It was reported by Elliotte Friedman that the Anaheim Ducks and winger Chris Kreider have reached an agreement for him to be put on waivers and have his contract terminated. In effect, this would make Kreider a free agent and hopefully give the Ducks the cap space necessary to sign Cutter Gauthier. We will have [...]
The Metropolitan Division is home to the Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes who led the Eastern Conference with 113 points. Other than Carolina, no one else finished above 98 points. The pair of Pennsylvania teams out played their expectations, claiming the remaining playoff spots. Making projections difficult is that the 21 points separating 2nd place [...]
In a pair of Ramblings last week, the review of my personal fantasy hockey projections began. We started with forwards before moving onto defencemen. Today, we’ll be going back to our forwards but looking for deeper values using ADP data from Fantrax. My projections are made using ‘replacement level’ value, which is determined to be [...]
In last week's edition of 'Analytics Advantage', there was analysis on how plus/minus can have a massive, and understated, impact on fantasy hockey value. There was also an analysis on how plus/minus fluctuates when a player changes teams. This week will pick up where we left off and apply what we discovered a week ago [...]
