When I think back to when Vincent Trocheck first started to catch my attention, I can’t help but reminisce about the 2016 World Cup of Hockey tournament. To me, this event was a coming-out party for many of the young up-and-coming stars in this league. The tournament was formatted to do exactly that by including [...]
Late Saturday, the league announced that Tom Wilson has been suspended for seven games for his hit on Brandon Carlo on Friday. A suspension of at least five games seemed possible after Wilson was offered an in-person hearing. With the suspension starting today (Sunday), Wilson will be able to return on Saturday March 20. Fantasy [...]
Happy Saturday, prospect enthusiast. Welcome back to another installment of The Journey. If you can believe it, we are fast approaching the midway point of the season. With that, we should have good indications towards the prospects that we have respectively invested in - at least for the short term. Whether they are full-time members, [...]
OK, ladies and gents, I am back in the lab and working on cooking up some winning picks for a super Saturday stacked with tantalizing matchups. Apologies for the two-week hiatus, but thankfully this is the perfect day to bounce-back with a loaded NHL board featuring four matinee games and eight evening tilts. Given the [...]
DraftKings has dubbed the next few days “Hockey Week” and I am here for it. You may be thinking what exactly qualifies this as “hockey week” since as far as the NHL schedule is concerned nothing is really out of the ordinary. Well in fact it has nothing to do with the NHL at all, [...]
It shouldn’t be much of a surprise given his current injury situation, but Brent Seabrook has announced his retirement. Seabrook will be remembered as a top-pairing blueliner on what might have been the most successful team of the past decade. His career ends with a long list of accomplishments, including three Stanley Cups, World Junior [...]
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 [...]
For the last several weeks we have been focused on a league-wide scan of power-play defensemen. Week 1 is here, Week 2 is here, and Week 3 is here. Now that we have wrapped up that discussion, we are going to turn to a bit of gold mining. Scouring the waiver wire is never a [...]
Following Calgary’s 7-3 win over Ottawa on Thursday, the Flames announced that they have fired Geoff Ward as their head coach and replaced him with Darryl Sutter. According to Pierre LeBrun, Sutter has also agreed to a three-year contract that includes the rest of this season plus the next two seasons. The fact that Sutter [...]
Sidney Crosby’s stay on COVID protocol lasted just one game, as he was back in action for the Penguins on Thursday. Unfortunately, Joel Farabee was placed onto the COVID protocol list. He has been hot recently with 14 points in his last 10 games, as well as a point-per-game pace (19 points in 19 games). [...]
