Fantasy Hockey: Evaluating and Projecting Goaltenders
How good a goaltender projects to be is a very precarious proposition. There are so many mitigating factors that play into how a goaltender performs at the NHL level that anyone who proclaims that they know a certain goaltender will be elite before they actually prove it over a large sample (there’s no real baseline, but […]
Fantasy Hockey: Let Someone Else Pay For Goal-Scoring Regression
This has been quite the week for hockey metrics. On Friday, a very well-known hockey blogger, author and radio personality Sean McIndoe a.k.a. DownGoesBrown posted an article on the basic ins-and-outs of hockey metrics over at Grantland. I strongly recommend reading it even if you have a grasp for hockey metrics as McIndoe has a […]
NHL Free Agent Frenzy Provides Little For Defensemen
This summer marks a fairly busy free agent (and trade) season in the NHL. There are numerous reasons for this, most of them tied into the salary cap going down nearly $7-million this year as part of what was agreed upon in the new Collective Bargaining Agreement. This has meant high-priced players being shipped out […]
Derek Roy, Danny Briere, Stephen Weiss Looking for Career Resurgence
It seems like every year there are a few players that I look at during the off-season and say to myself “yeah, he could do better this year!” But I am often disappointed. Derek Roy, Danny Briere and Stephen Weiss have found themselves a new team during the Free Agent Frenzy and are hoping for […]
Vincent Lecavalier Headlines Group of Veterans on the Move
[wzslider info=”true”] Vincent Lecavalier, Daniel Alfredsson, Michael Ryder and Mike Ribeiro are among the veterans that found themselves a new home during Free Agent Frenzy. Each of these players brings a unique aspect to their new found home but it doesn’t necessarily mean that this will be a boost to their fantasy hockey value for […]
Fantasy Hockey: Maple Leafs, Senators Make Major Moves
It’s been about a decade since there has been a real battle of Ontario between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Ottawa Senators. Sure they play each other and this year was the first year they made the playoffs in the same year since I was in high school (2004, for those counting), but the rivalry […]
Fantasy Hockey Impact of Free Agent Frenzy; Day One
While the rules for signing a free agent appear to change near-daily, the landscape of the NHL will look very different next year than it did this year. The salary cap is going down from $70.2M this past year year to $64.3M for the upcoming season, as was negotiated in the new CBA. This means […]
John Tortorella Fired As Rangers Head Coach; What About Henrik Lundqvist’s Fantasy Value?
Word came down Monday afternoon that John Tortorella has been fired as the Head Coach of the New York Rangers. To say this is shocking would be a bold-faced lie. Anyone that follows me on Twitter knows I’ve been raving for most of this season for Tortorella to go. He wasn’t getting most of his […]