The home teams won all three of Friday’s Game 3s, meaning that underdogs are now in the driver’s seat for all three of these series. Montreal 3, Tampa Bay 2 (Canadiens lead series 2-1) Lane Hutson scored on an absolute bomb early in overtime to give the Canadiens a 3-2 win in Game 3 and [...]
The playoffs are still young, so the trick is separating what matters from what is just early-series noise. Two-game samples are not trends. Three games are not destiny. But usage moves, special teams gaps, goalie baselines, and shot volume can already tell us why a series is tilting one way. No shot maps here. The [...]
We won’t be covering the NHL playoffs blow by blow in this column, though we will touch on teams a bit as they get knocked out in each round. For this week, and for several upcoming weeks, we will be looking back over regular season data and find out which players provided the most, and [...]
Before Buffalo took on Boston Thursday night, we got injury news as Matthew Fairburn reported that Josh Norris would not be playing in Game 3 and is considered day-to-day. Norris’ injury history needs no repeating here, so let’s just hope this is truly a day-to-day thing, and not one of those ‘day-to-day in the playoffs [...]
Elan is joined by the newest KKUPFL Ultimate Champion Jordan Beach to talk about his epic win and what makes him the best fantasy hockey player in the world.
In some positive injury news outside of the NHL playoffs, the Winnipeg Jets assigned defenceman Elias Salomonsson to the AHL. Salomonsson had suffered a concussion against the Dallas Stars earlier this month and missed the final seven games of the regular season. He won’t be immediately inserted into the playoff lineup but that this decision [...]
Welcome fantasy managers to another edition of the Eastern Edge. This week we’ll be taking a look at Nikolaj Ehlers’ first season in Carolina, Logan Stankoven’s continued evolution, Jack Hughes’ dominant campaign despite injury and lastly the Philadelphia Flyers’ Trevor Zegras. Let’s get to it! Nikolaj Ehlers certainly made the most of his first season [...]
Happy Tuesday y’all! What a start to the postseason! Minnesota coming in hot and Dallas with a great bounce back, the back and forth in Tampa Bay, Vegas bullying Utah, Philadelphia dominating the battle of Pennsylvania, the comeback in Buffalo. It has been exciting thus far and we have only just begun! With the end [...]
The Washington Capitals expect to be without defenceman Rasmus Sandin to start the 2026-27 season, according to Sammi Silber. Sandin injured his knee late in the season and his recovery is going to take several months. The Caps also mentioned that this might make them look for a defenceman this offseason, and it also means [...]
Happy Monday y’all! Hopefully you had a great weekend watching the start of the NHL playoffs (and WrestleMania)! Before we jump into the action, I always like to be hit with the bad news before the good so let’s cover the postmortems of the teams that did not punch their tickets to the Stanley Cup [...]
