With the Flames on a six game win streak and sitting first in the Pacific Division by point percentage, GM Brad Treliving rewarded his players and tipped over the first domino ahead of the 2022 trade deadline. The Flames acquired winger Tyler Toffoli for a package that included Tyler Pitlick and a first round pick. Let’s take a look the deal.
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Roster News Roundup: 2022-FEB-14
After a small flurry of extensions signed in late January, things have slowed down around the league again on that front. There have been a couple of additional moves since the last roster news update though, so let’s take a look at them.
Trade Check-in: Zadorov (CGY) / Draft Pick (CHI) – Feb 2022
After losing Mark Giordano in the expansion draft, the Calgary Flames went looking for reinforcements on defense last offseason. One such addition was Nikita Zadorov, who they acquired from the Chicago Blackhawks. Let’s take a look at the returns after the first half of the 21/22 season.
Assessing Value: Present Value vs Future Value
team for the current season. That approach may be the most appropriate measure of value for a contending team looking to win now, but it doesn’t give us much for a team in the midst of a rebuild. In the latter case, future value is more important and that’s what we’ll tackle in this post.
Trade Check-in: Graves (NJD) / Maltsev+ (COL) – Feb 2022
high quality player to Seattle. Rather than risk losing him for nothing, the Avalanche dealt defenseman Ryan Graves to the New Jersey Devils for forward Mikhail Maltsev and a draft pick. Let’s look in on the returns through the first half of the 2021-2022 season.
NHL Roster News Roundup: 2022-FEB-02
were a few contract extensions signed over the past week, along with a free agent signing for the current season. Let’s take a look at the most notable moves in chronological order.
Determining Player Types
It’s obvious to even casual hockey fans that every player is not equal. Skill level is one obvious differentiator that we’ve looked at through the player projections, with overall impact as the measure of a player’s skill. Player type is another way to differentiate players based on how they approach the game and we’re going to delve into it in this post.
Biggest Surprises of the Season: 5v5 GF/60 Edition
We’re now well into the 21/22 NHL season and longer term trends are starting to show in each team’s performance. With model projections giving us a reference point for how strong each team’s even strength offense was expected to be, let’s take a look at which teams have fallen in line with the projections and which have surprised.
Trade Check-in: Gostisbehere+ (ARI) / Future Considerations (PHI) – Jan 2022
offseason. They found one in the Arizona Coyotes, who were busy snapping up all the perceived low value contracts they could to pile up draft picks alongside them. Let’s take a look at how the Gostisbehere trade looks now.
Biggest Surprises of the 21/22 Season: Point % Edition
We’re now well into the 21/22 NHL season and teams have generally settled into a pecking order in the standings. Some teams are performing as expected. Others are not. Let’s take a look at which teams have been the biggest surprises relative to the model projections so far this season in terms of overall performance.