Hello everyone and welcome to the latest edition of Eastern Edge! I’m Eli Feldman. While there’s potential value to roster diversification in fantasy hockey (namely, maximizing games played), nothing hits quite like monopolizing a group of teammates, sitting back, and watching them tear it up together for the benefit of your beloved fantasy team. With [...]
This week we are returning to our playoff series with the second part of our first-round review. Last week we covered the teams eliminated from the Western Conference: St Louis Blues, Colorado Avalanche, Los Angeles Kings, and Minnesota Wild. This week we are moving on to talk about the Eastern Conference so we will be [...]
Today we’ll continue our Eastern Edge offseason series by tackling the next quartet of teams in alphabetical order – those that punched their playoff tickets only to bow out in Round 1: the Montreal Canadiens, New Jersey Devils, Ottawa Senators and Tampa Bay Lightning. After dissecting the eight clubs that never made it to April, [...]
Nikolaj Ehlers was not back in the lineup for the Winnipeg Jets on Monday night after missing Saturday’s game in Utah. The good news for the Jets is he was a game-time decision and was at morning skate, so it seems as if he's very close to returning, at any rate. A positive sign for [...]
In this first instalment, we’re going to be looking at some team’s top lines and how they have been producing to start the year. Although we’re working with a small sample size, these players have been spending most of their time on ice together and as a result their production as a unit can be used to predict their future [...]
As Dimitri Filipovich said, “It’s Nikita Kucherov’s world, we’re all just lucky enough to live in it.” The 24-year-old Russian superstar has scored a goal in each of his first seven games of the season, joining Mario Lemieux as the only players to accomplish that feat in the past 30 years. Before [...]
