Watching your name drop in the rankings from month to month can never be easy. More so if your name was being mentioned as a possible 1st round draft pick. It’s been an up and down season for Quebec’s Anthony Duclair. From an ankle injury early in the season, to getting suspended a few games ...
Winning three straight games to snap a five-game losing streak, the Winnipeg Jets have pulled out of their nose dive and are looking to soar to the franchise’s first postseason birth since 2007. As of Monday, the Jets sit in second place in the southeast division behind the Washington Capitals. Winnipeg is within four points ...
In the era of in-depth analysis, sabermetrics and advanced statistics, fantasy hockey managers are trying to find unique and more complicated ways to beat the opposition and win their fantasy drafts. A theory that emerged a few years ago on the Internet, most notably on Dobber, is that offensive forwards tend to breakout in their fourth ...
Hello, this is the first of what I hope will be many segments in a recurring theme where I provide news, insight and analysis regarding various events and trends going on throughout the NHL. The NHL is back, and it’s alive and well. Despite months of uncertainty, anger and, ultimately the most worrisome, apathy, the ...
When it comes to calling an upcoming season as a redemptive one for a player there is usually a reason behind the claim. In most cases the player had failed to live up to expectations the season before and must redeem himself in order to restore balance, either by exceeding the new expectations or recapturing ...
Counting down the top 10 storylines to watch as the 2012-13 NHL Season unfolds. 10. Evander Kane Watch Drafted 4th overall in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft, the former Vancouver Giants’ star Evander Kane has been at the centre of controversy early in his career. Putting his talented hockey skills aside, Kane has ...
It can be argued that Jamie Benn is the future face of the Dallas Stars organization. Quite frankly, that might be an undisputed fact. Despite an up-and-coming talent pool, as well as a solid nucleus of young players currently on the roster, Benn has established himself as a strong forward in a short amount of ...
I was starting to develop an unhealthy reliance on the pixelated version of Evander Kane. The Winnipeg Jets left-winger has been, to me, one of the last barriers to full blown insanity brought on by hockey starvation. Kane, who is the cornerstone of my franchise in EA Sports’ NHL ’13, has slowly become more valuable ...
Whether the NHLPA and the NHL are meeting isn’t relevant, but what is relevant is the fact it is hockey season. Coaches, owners, players and fans are all eagerly awaiting to see what happens next in the ever revolving door that is the NHL 2012 lockout. One thing is for certain fans will go elsewhere ...
It’s hard to think that nearly two months and a half after the free-agent market opened on July 1st, 2012 that there is still a plethora of quality unrestricted free agents left to sign such as Andrei Kostitsyn, Kristian Huselius, Shane Doan and Carlo Colaiacovo. Even more surprising is that there are some big name ...
