There are still a few RFAs that remain unsigned, but one of them was taken off the board on Thursday: Pierre LeBrun reported that the New Jersey Devils and Luke Hughes reached a decision with Hughes signing a seven-year deal carrying a $9-million average annual value. According to PuckPedia, that ties Hughes with Cale Makar [...]
After not playing in either of the Montreal Canadiens’ first two preseason games, Kirby Dach lined up for Game 3 on Thursday night. Coming off another knee surgery, there was a bit of concern when he wasn’t quite game-ready a few days ago but it seems as if all is good now, and it’s great [...]
During the fantasy hockey season, I basically have three types of game I’m playing: one standard season-long fantasy league on FanTrax, Daily Fantasy on DraftKings, and I play in Best Ball leagues on Underdog Fantasy. It is the last of those three I want to talk about today. Best Ball leagues have been discussed before [...]
Hello everyone and welcome to the latest edition of Eastern Edge! I’m Eli Feldman. With draft season underway, it’s time to discuss an important part of the game we love: regression. At the risk of sounding like your old math teacher, regression essentially means that if something unusual happens once, it’s likely to be closer [...]
With training camps opening, we finally got updates on a lot of players on whom fantasy managers have been anticipating updates. Earlier in the summer, got word that Florida forward Matthew Tkachuk would miss the start of the season and that it was likely to drag well into the regular season. We got an update, [...]
In my Ramblings last Friday, I started a three-part series looking at arbitrage drafting options for this season. That post covered defencemen, and today we’re moving to wingers. The concept of arbitrage in fantasy sports in straightforward: which undervalued player at a given position has similar projections to an overvalued player at the same position? [...]
Not much is happening in the hockey world as we prepare for the last week of August and school restarting next week (at least here in Canada). I’m just going to look at some random topics that hopefully will garner some interesting takeaways. Mid to Late Draft Round Success Rates (2009 through 2017) I thought [...]
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