Welcome Back to The Journey. I mentioned in my last piece how exciting the next few weeks were with regards to hockey events. You can officially cross “Draft Lottery” off that list. Not only because it has now passed us by, but because it was everything but exciting. The buildup lasted weeks, only for it [...]
The Montreal Canadiens are getting hot at the right time. After looking like the league’s most improved team to start the season, the Habs sputtered on their way into the playoffs and appeared to be dead in the water after Game 4 against Toronto (you know what happened after that). Now they are hot again, [...]
Welcome to Part 3 of our four-part series looking back at the most valuable players at each position. We started with centermen, last week we hit left wings, and now we are on to right wings. I think you probably get the gist by now, but we are comparing draft data to player’s end-of-year stats [...]
The NHL Department of Player Safety has ruled on a four-game suspension for Mark Scheifele for his charge on Jake Evans near the end of Game 1. You can watch their video for an explanation of the suspension below. https://twitter.com/NHLPlayerSafety/status/1400603878618501121 I can’t say this about the DoPS every time, but I believe they got this [...]
Here we are, Part V team by team coverage of this years unrestricted free agents. In reverse alphabetical order we go from Colorado to Anaheim. Once again, I’ve used Alex MacLean’s free agent salary projection list as a reference point which you can find here. The rest of this 'Capped' series can be found right [...]
I have always found the Ted Lindsay award somewhat interesting. Appealing to authority is something that we should avoid doing as much as possible, but it’s still interesting to find out who the players thought were the three most valuable among them. This year, we have two names that are very obvious and one that [...]
Here’s the latest injury news from across the NHL! Detailed injury updates usually become scarce during the playoffs, presumably because teams don’t want the opposition to target their injured players. As a result, the Injury Ward article will probably be put on hold until the offseason, when we’ll review the injury landscape ahead of next year’s campaign. [...]
Here are the top defensemen to own in your points-only dynasty leagues - June edition! Click a player name to be taken to his fantasy hockey player profile Def. RkPlayerTeamRatingJuneMayChange1Cale MakarCOL114.13543-82John CarlsonWAS112.9383173Adam FoxNYR110.1413834Victor HedmanTBL108.1434215Quinn HughesVAN96.8595906Roman JosiNSH95.26266-47Shea TheodoreVGK95.26365-28Morgan RiellyTOR94.16553129Dougie HamiltonCAR94.06677-1110Tyson BarrieEDM89.773571611Thomas ChabotOTT78.392100-812Rasmus DahlinBUF73.8101812013Kris LetangPIT71.4107119-1214Torey KrugSTL68.5114174-6015John KlingbergDAL67.4117130-1316Miro HeiskanenDAL62.4125121417Seth JonesCBJ59.2130134-418Samuel GirardCOL58.7134137-319Zach WerenskiCBJ58.6135144-920Alex PietrangeloVGK57.4141159-1821Charlie McAvoyBOS54.21501401022Darnell NurseEDM53.7153199-4623Drew DoughtyLAK49.21691452424Ivan ProvorovPHI48.71721413125Mikhail SergachevTBL45.91801483226Jakob [...]
Welcome back to Goldipucks and the Three Skaters, a play on words of the Goldilocks and the Three Bears story. Instead of there being three bowls of porridge though, I cover three skaters and declare one too hot (i.e., doing unsustainably better than he should), another too cold (i.e., doing unsustainably worse), and a third [...]
My updated top-200 contract projections are below. This is a Ramblings article though, so there are a few other thoughts I want to touch on before I get to the contract numbers. * The Vezina nominees were revealed yesterday: https://twitter.com/NHL/status/1399746429116207107 In my (perhaps slightly biased) opinion, Juuse Saros should have been nominated here. No offence [...]
