If you’ve been waiting on a Canuck or two on your fantasy team, you’ll be happy to learn that they are expected to return to play next Friday, April 16, pending test results. As a result of their missed games, the Canucks’ regular season has been extended to Sunday May 16. From Wednesday May 12 [...]
Here are the Top 200 forwards to own in your points-only dynasty leagues - April edition! As always, players ranked within +/- 5.0 ratings of each other should be considered equal value and at that point become a matter of team needs (wait time or upside more important?) and personal bias. o=offensive forward, t=two-way, os=offense, [...]
The Tampa Bay Lightning made their big swing on Saturday, acquiring David Savard from the Columbus Blue Jackets, through the Detroit Red Wings (for salary retention purposes). Here’s the full trade: https://twitter.com/CapFriendly/status/1380996850107482116 Savard has played his whole 10-year career with the Blue Jackets, and for the last number of years has been a reliable presence on [...]
The Florida Panthers have acquired Brandon Montour from the Buffalo Sabres for a third-round pick. Montour showed offensive upside as a prospect in Anaheim, but he couldn’t get over the 0.4 PTS/GP mark either this season or last in Buffalo. Surprisingly, his power-play time also declined from around 2:00/GP in Anaheim to just 0:11/GP this [...]
The Colorado Avalanche have acquired goalie Devan Dubnyk from the San Jose Sharks for defenseman Greg Pateryn and a fifth-round pick in 2021. Even with Jonas Johansson’s 28-save shutout on Friday, the Avalanche weren’t sold on him or their other backup goaltending options after Philipp Grubauer. Johansson has only 17 games of NHL experience and [...]
Welcome back to The Journey. In last week’s edition, I covered a list of newly inked NCAA players, three of which have made their professional debuts since. Here is a quick update: David Farrance was the lone player to take part in his first National Hockey League game, skating 13:46 with the Nashville Predators. The [...]
The slate we have tonight is a unique one. It has been several Saturdays since I’ve really harped on ownership being a key factor, but it will certainly come into play tonight. There are three glaringly obvious spots on this slate and I’d expect all of them to be heavily owned. I will run through [...]
The Devils have placed Nikita Gusev on unconditional waivers for his contract to be terminated. He will be free to sign with any team once he clears on Saturday. Gusev has been a healthy scratch multiple times, so leaving the Devils appears to be a huge break as far as his fantasy value goes. On [...]
All fantasy owners need help in the short term AND the long term. The Looking Ahead feature identifies one player to plug into lineups in the short term, a second to invest in for the long term, a third to bench for the coming week, and a fourth who will struggle to meet expectations for [...]
This week we are going to take a bit of a long and meandering trip. I write this intro after I went down this rabbit hole, and it all starts with the tools available on Frozen Tools. I added some links along the way so that folks can follow along and find the various reports/charts [...]
