Photo credit: NHL.com I’ll start today’s Ramblings with a few observations about the World Juniors, then shift over to highlighting a few players elsewhere. I have a soft spot for Team Germany after previewing their roster ahead of the tournament, and they put on an entertaining show as the clear underdog in their 1-0 loss [...]
Photo Credit: Jason Franson, Sportsnet The World Juniors are the most wonderful time of year. The Holiday tradition of the best junior tournament in the word has a special kind of magic. Each year the tournament has breakout players that use the tournament to propel their careers towards stardom. In turn, that raises the fantasy [...]
Photo credit: Photo by Fred Kfoury III/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images If you can afford to wait, now is an excellent time to send an offer on Jamie Drysdale (ANA) in keepers and dynasties. He has been out for a while now, and with races heating up a third of the way through the season, [...]
Cover image photo credit: Fred Kfoury III/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Although Aliaksei Protas (WSH), 21, likely will not be rosterable in fantasy for several seasons still, he has the best relative Corsi For% on the Capitals by a mile right now. Along with Nic Dowd and Garnet Hathaway, Protas is part of a crucial [...]
21-year-old Bobby Brink (PHI), last year’s leading NCAA scorer, is on track to return in late December from a hip injury sustained during off-season training that required surgery. He is set to report to the Lehigh Phantoms (AHL) when he does. If he can pick up where he left off at the end of last [...]
This is a heads up that there are plenty of great buy low opportunities from the 2020 draft class right now. Except for Tim Stutzle (OTT), Lucas Raymond (DET), and Jake Sanderson (OTT)—picked third through fifth that year—everyone else drafted in the top 15 and beyond has arguably underperformed so far, whether this year or [...]
Checking back in this week with NHL RankKing, which sorts NHL prospects by PNHLe, I noticed that an incredible 13 of the top 20 prospects are defencemen right now. So this week is all about defence. Given that the 2023 Draft class is considered light on high-end blue line talent, many of these will be [...]
How deep is the 2023 draft class? Six out of the top 20 prospects ranked by PNHLe will be drafted this June. That list includes all prospects playing outside the NHL right now, and six of them haven’t even been drafted yet: Adam Fantilli (1st, 128 PNHLe), Connor Bedard (3rd, 117), Leo Carlsson (5th, 114), [...]
If you don’t have it yet, check out Mason Black’s awesome RankKing app here. It generates a list of all NHL prospects ranked by PNHLe, “a value that projects a prospect's point potential at the NHL level, taking into consideration point production (i.e., points-per-game), the league a prospect plays in, their age and the position [...]
Arber Xhekaj (MON) and Nick Blankenburg (CBJ), two of Twitter’s favourite rookie defencemen of late, have had a noticeable early impact on their respective teams. Both offer limited scoring but solid peripherals: Blankenburg has 10 hits in four games, while Xhekaj is currently tied for fifth in the league for hits with 26 alongside noted [...]
