In today’s article, we will look at skaters that are struggling, as well as skaters that have started hot, and try to determine if which will regress to the norm or not. This will hopefully help elucidate some buy-low and sell-high candidates. Pete DeBoer is giving Kyle Palmieri a career high 75.5% of the New [...]
The Carolina Hurricanes got some good injury news as winger Taylor Hall was back at practice in a normal contact jersey on Monday, per Ryan Henkel. He lined up on the third line with Seth Jarvis and Jordan Martinook, and hopped back onto the second power-play unit. Hall has been out the last two weeks [...]
Today on Frozen Tool Forensics we are going to look at some big names with slow starts. Basically, our job today is to check in on these players and see if there is anything to their lack of production and whether folks should be worried at this stage in the game. In order to research [...]
Last week, we reviewed some of the offseason transactions from clubs in the Atlantic Division, so today we will look at the Metropolitan. Carolina Hurricanes: Why change anything when you win the Stanley Cup? The only major difference going into the season will be the goaltending, Frederik Andersen signed with the Edmonton Oilers, so it [...]
The Metropolitan Division is home to the Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes who led the Eastern Conference with 113 points. Other than Carolina, no one else finished above 98 points. The pair of Pennsylvania teams out played their expectations, claiming the remaining playoff spots. Making projections difficult is that the 21 points separating 2nd place [...]
For bubble keeper week we will go through some Eastern conference forwards and analyze some of their statistics to determine if they are worthy of a keeper spot. Of course, each league has different categories, sizes, and a variable number of keeper slots, so it is not a ‘one size fits all’ recommendation. Trevor Zegras [...]
This week we are moving on to the Eastern Conference in our playoff round up, so that means the Boston Bruins, Tampa Bay Lightning, Ottawa Senators, and Pittsburgh Penguins. The first-round teams from the Western Conference were covered here. As a reminder, for this article we are going to look at these four teams and [...]
Welcome fantasy managers to another edition of the Eastern Edge. This week we’ll be taking a look at each of the four playoff series in the Eastern Conference. Let’s get to it! Carolina Hurricanes / Ottawa Senators (CAR wins series 4-0) The Carolina Hurricanes are on to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs [...]
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 [...]
Honestly, it's a surprise to most people that either of these teams even made the playoffs, let alone both. This matchup wasn't circled in August or even in December — it came together late, and now it's the Pennsylvania rivalry we didn't see coming. The City of Brotherly Love versus the Steel City. A Metropolitan [...]
