The Los Angeles Kings announced that winger Kevin Fiala underwent another surgery related to the initial surgery for the broken femur he suffered back in February at the Olympics. He is going to start the beginning of training camp, but there is no word on the recent procedure or when he’ll return. For fantasy purposes, [...]
Happy Tuesday y’all! Welcome back to Lining Up, our weekly series on lineup trends and what to look forward to in the coming week. I have to start with a shout out to Dobber and the rest of the managing crew for having me back for another year. We have made it to September. Training [...]
The arriving class Bubble keeper decisions lock this week, and the hardest slots are the ones a rookie is asking for. The board below covers the 15 drafted skaters with fewer than 40 career NHL games and a serious claim on 2026-27 minutes. Players who already banked a full NHL season like Macklin Celebrini and [...]
Every August the depth-chart sites publish projected lines for all 32 teams, and every August fantasy players draft off them. I have never seen anyone check whether those charts come true, so I did: six years of archived August depth charts, 2019 through 2024, 5,947 player-slots pulled from the Wayback Machine and scored against what [...]
Mike Augello of the Hockey Hotstove joins the program to discuss the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Macklin Celebrini signed his anticipated contract extension with the San Jose Sharks, the team announced on Wednesday. Not sure what readers may have been expecting for the new deal, but this is a five-year extension with an $18.8-million cap hit, per Chris Johnston. Celebrini has one year left on his entry-level contract, then his new [...]
I’ll quickly chime in my two-cents on the Leo Carlsson contract, and that’s first off that I have been noting for a couple of years now that this big jump in contracts was coming, along with how valuable those long terms deals were going to be that were signed. Especially the eight year contracts signed [...]
Well what a crazy day that was yesterday in the NHL world. Give NHL GMs cap space, a weaker draft class, a barren free agent group, and it turns out that making a trade isn’t actually that difficult! We saw Bowen Byram moved for the fourth overall pick, and some secondary pieces. Jordan Kyrou [...]
It’s not fantasy relevant news at this point, but Gavin McKenna choosing to go the NCAA route, and signing to play with Penn State is certainly intriguing and has a lot of ripple effects. He’s going to a program that wasn’t one of the leaders last year, but he now has the opportunity to elevate [...]
