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NHL Daily Fantasy: Best Value Player at each Skater Position

Daily Fantasy Contests have become very difficult battlegrounds over the years, and many entrants are becoming more strategic with time. Whether you are taking a challenge against half the masses to double your money or you are praying for a longshot outcome, there are many smart contestants in your way. One thing we can always […]

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The Sportsbetting World, and Today’s Value Pick

With Sports betting and Daily Fantasy being among the fastest-growing sports concepts, fandom’s evolution has taken a turn in the past few years. In such a connected modern world, we no longer follow our one team or favorite player. Fans now have several screens up and are constantly staying updated on games they may not

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Boston Bruins through Six 

3-2-1…. This isn’t a countdown folks but rather the Boston Bruins record six games into the 2024-25 season. By all indications it’s a rather pedestrian start for the group and there could very well be a chemistry bridge to cross yet. As noted here last week, the Bruins will rely on previous seasons development and

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More Changes at Barys Astanay

For the KHL’s lone Kazakh club, 2024-25 has already been a miserable slog, and the campaign is only a quarter over.  We wrote about the firing of head coach David Nemirovsky from Barys Astana here just a few weeks ago, when the team was 1-5 – the club eventually decided to go with a veteran

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COLLEGE HOCKEY: FIVE FRESHMEN TO WATCH

Last season, college hockey was home to several freshmen that would go on to make immediate impacts on their respective programs. From Macklin Celebrini to Ryan Leonard to Miko Matikka, young talent was not hard to find. Fast forward to the 2024-25 college hockey season and it’s another batch of incoming freshmen that will impress.

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The legendary Golden Jet: Bobby Hull

Bobby Hull has been widely regarded as one of the greatest hockey players of all time. Unfortunately as generations pass, legends of before become lesser known among the newer fans of hockey who have never seen them play and only hear the stories of beforehand . It’s what have you done lately not what was

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Edmonton Oilers Connections Help Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Lead the KHL Early

This past spring saw some good news – sort of – for Lokomotiv Yarovslavl.  The club from the banks upper Volga, best known for the tragedy of September 7th, 2011, made its return to the Gagarin Cup Finals for the first time since the KHL’s inaugural season of 2008-09.  On that earlier occasion Lokomotiv were

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Arrival and Departure in the KH

We’re about three weeks into the 2024-25 KHL season at this point, which means that the big picture, though still very blurry, is starting to sharpen up a little bit  – especially for those teams that are off to inauspicious starts…  And NHL pre-season preparations are also in full swing now, meaning that players without

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Vadim Shipachyov Closes in on Some Major KHL Records

At some point in the quite-near future, two major individual records are going to fall in Russia’s KHL, and they’re going to fall to the same man.  Vadim Shipachyov (or Shipachev) is 37 now, and his last couple of seasons at Ak Bars have seen a fairly significant drop-off in his once-prodigious point totals.  This

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How I met Wladislaw Alexandrowitsch Tretjak (Both in English & German)

Back in 2017, the IIHF World Championship was held in Paris and Cologne. As I was working in Cologne at the time, I took the opportunity and sacrificed 3 weeks of my annual leave to work as a volunteer at the World Championships. I applied to the transportation service and was soon accepted. Our job

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