Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. **** Welcome back to my coverage into Mason Black’s Rank King PNHLe chart! Earlier in the season, we broke down how PNHLe (here) helps project a player’s potential point production in the NHL [...]
Finding obituary articles about the Leafs – particularly the Core 4 – was not particularly difficult to do following their Game 5 no-show. Yet for everyone who was ready to stick a fork into the Leafs, they still had one more game to play. And in that game, they were able to receive a stay [...]
This week we are continuing our MVP series with defensemen. I have included a small snippet from the original article below that outlines the process we are using in this series. ‘Most Valuable’ is a tricky term that is going to be completely dependent on the league specific context. For the purposes of this article, [...]
On Thursday, the top-seeded team in one conference was eliminated, while the top-seeded team in the other conference staved off elimination. Carolina 3, Washington 1 (Hurricanes win series 4-1) Andrei Svechnikov scored the game-winning goal with just 1:59 left in regulation to secure a spot for the Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference Final. https://twitter.com/NHL/status/1923191946534625330 Svechnikov’s [...]
After taking a break for the month of April, the Roto Rankings are back for May. Consider these rankings very preliminary rankings for next season before the usual flurry of offseason activity. The stat categories for the Roto Rankings are as follows: Goals, Assists, Special Teams Points, Shots on Goal, Hits, and Blocked Shots. For [...]
With the second round of the playoffs underway, this week’s edition of Analytics Advantage takes a look at how teams and players are trending based on their underlying numbers. The box score doesn’t always tell the full story, and these updated Tableau visuals offer more context behind who’s driving results and who might be falling [...]
The Los Angeles Kings’ general manager search did not last long as they hired former Oilers boss Ken Holland to take over the direction of the team. Given Los Angeles’ struggles against Edmonton in the playoffs in recent memory, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, I guess? The forward group is largely fine, so [...]
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening everyone. 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 I'd like to [...]
Welcome back to another edition of the Roos Lets Loose monthly mailbag, where I answer your fantasy hockey questions by giving advice that should be useful to all poolies even if they don’t own the specific players being discussed. As a reminder, if you want your fantasy hockey question(s) answered in the next mailbag, check [...]
Miro Heiskanen was finally available for Dallas, and he played a lot less than his usual workload, generally taking short shifts, and showing the occasional uncharacteristic mishap. He’s not 100%, but he did provide some solid play on the whole, added an assist, and Dallas came out with the win in the end. That means [...]
