Notable lineup happenings from around the NHL: Kings wings Ryan Smyth (upper-body) will not play tonight and will be out “longer than that, for sure,” according to Terry Murray. We will update you when we know more about the injury. Alexander Frolov will move onto the top line. Kings Lineup UPDATE: Smyth is expected to be [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 2, 2009
We want you, our readers, to vote daily on the previous night’s Fantasy 3 Stars of the Night. Based on your votes, points will be assigned to the top 3 stars of the night and at the end of the season the 3 players with the most points will be delcared the DailyFaceoff Fantasy 3 [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 2, 2009
Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the greatest NHL player (for October) of them all? Is it Alexander Ovechkin’s with his torrid goal scoring? How about M-A Fleury and his stellar play between the pipes? Unfortunately for these two and the rest of the NHLer’s, no one matched the unbelievable play of the Los [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Keith Tkachuk: Last year Tkachuk scored eight goals and an assists in his first eight games of the year. After that… not so much. Those eight games accounted for a third of his goal production for the entire year. Don’t get sucked in, but if he is on your team at least try to trade [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Avalanche defenseman Tom Preissing will be out of action for 4 to 6 weeks following arthroscopic knee surgery. Preissing was traded to Colorado last season from LA along with Kyle Quincey for Ryan Smyth. Preissing was a valuable fantasy defenseman before he joined the Kings. He had 43 points in 05/06 with San Jose and was [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 22, 2009
LA’s top line of Ryan Smyth, Anze Kopitar, and Justin Williams have been clicking so far in the preseason, amassing a collective 8 points and a +10 rating in their two preseason games played so far. Look for LA coach Andy Murray to go with this line to kick off the season and attempt to [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Los Angeles Kings 2008/09: 34-37-11 – 79 pts (5th in Pacific, 14th in West) Arrived: Ryan Smyth (COL), Rob Scuderi (PIT), Brandon Segal (TAM) Departed: Kyle Quincey (COL), Tom Preissing (COL), Brian Boyle (NYR), Matt Moulson (NYI), Kyle Calder, Denis Gauthier, Daniel Taylor, Derek Armstrong (All UFA) The Kings were a better team than their record indicated last year; [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Colorado Avalanche 2008/09: 32-45-5 – 69 pts (5th in Northwest, 15th in West) Arrived: Tom Preissing (LA), Kyle Quincey (LA), Craig Anderson (FLA), David Koci (TAM) Departed: Joe Sakic (Retired), Ryan Smyth (LA), Andrew Raycroft (VAN), Ben Guite (NSH), Tyler Arnason (NYR), Ian Laperierre (PHI) I am not going to lie; it felt very good to [...]
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
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