The beauty of the fantasy season is that every week presents pleasant surprises as well as bitter disappointments. That’s why you can never play fantasy hockey with your heart; because the players will break your heart and their performances will ruin your team. The fantasy world was pretty much rocked by the news Devils goaltender […]
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This week’s lucky-special-wow winner is Ruslan Fedotenko, who goes from being bumped around every line possible to skating shotgun on a mega-line with Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. That also means that something’s not quite right in Pittsburgh, as uniting the two star centres on one line is usually a formula for kick-starting a club
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Unless you’re playing in a keeper league, you can probably feel free to dump young Russian forward Nikita Filatov, after Columbus sent him down to the AHL on Tuesday. This 18-year-old kid, the sixth overall pick in the draft in June, became just the fourth Blue Jacket in team history to score a goal in
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How great is it to have hockey back? You don’t realize how long and pointless the summer felt until you’re watching a few games a night. And then, you realize you stopped living the second Detroit hoisted that Cup. Or maybe I just don’t get enough sunlight. Over in St. Louis, they have some hot
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BY ROB REATH John Stevens, the one-time captain and former coach of the AHL Phantoms and the current coach of the Philadelphia Flyers, is facing tough times these days. Let’s explore why. First, let’s look at how Stevens got to where he is. He wore the Phantoms jersey proudly, leading a team to the Calder
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Brandon Dubinksy, a guy Jaromir Jagr once bitched and moaned about having as a linemate, is quickly making people forget that the Rangers had some guy wearing 68 last season. Will he keep it up? I’ll say it right here: Dubinsky will not win the Art Ross trophy. Will he be a good second-line scorer
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BY ROB REATH Credibility, confidence, courage and composure…or confusion and chaos, I am not certain. The Vancouver Canucks recently named goaltender Roberto Luongo as their team captain. There are scores of problems with this kind of thinking but first off, it should be pointed out the Luongo is a top notch athlete, an upstanding citizen
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