Welcome to the September 16, 2026 edition of Injury Ward! Twice a week, we will be providing injury news and updates throughout the season on all of you favorite fantasy hockey players, as well as, the annoyingly injury prone players you painstakingly roster anyway. With camps opening up this week and the NHL’s first regular [...]
Welcome fantasy managers to another edition of the Eastern Edge. This week we’ll take a closer look at Frederik Andersen vs Brandon Bussi and who should start Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final for the Carolina Hurricanes. We’ll also touch on Dylan Larkin’s trade request out of Detroit as well as a couple breakout [...]
The panel went 1-1 on the conference final picks, correctly choosing Carolina over Montreal while missing out on Vegas’s unexpected four-game sweep of Colorado. The panel’s lifetime record is now 159-101 when it comes to postseason predictions. Congratulations to Garrett Finlay and Stas Pupkov (and our trusty coin), who correctly picked both Conference Final winners. [...]
The Eastern Conference semi-final is half-finished with the Carolina Hurricanes completing the sweep of the Philadelphia Flyers while the Montreal Canadiens and Buffalo Sabres have Game 6 on tap for tonight. How did the Hurricanes managed to take four straight games off the Flyers, and how did the Canadiens and Sabres get to this point? [...]
With the second round wrapped, this edition of Analytics Advantage walks through all five Tableau views defining what each quadrant represents, then highlighting who stood out and why. Expected Goals Against (xGA) vs Save Percentage (SV%) Here we split the ice into four zones by league-average xGA (horizontal) and SV% (vertical): Top-Left (“Stingy”): below-average danger [...]
