Valeri Nichushkin News & Stories

The tale of the tape for the Dallas Stars and Colorado Avalanche's second-round series in the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

The Canucks could have challenged, but did not.

Training camps and exhibition games don’t always mean a lot in fantasy hockey, except when they do. There are always important offensive roles up for grabs like a top-line spot...

JFresh continues his series looking at the top player in the NHL, today focusing on the right wings.

Sean Shapiro looks at some of the storylines he'll be tracking this season from the Central Division.

Associate editor Sean Shapiro takes a look at possibly the most competitive division in the NHL after the defending champs lost another, and biggest, weapon.

The reigning cup champions are looking like, well, reigning cup champions.

This week's edition of the Fantasy Rundown focuses on surprises at the top of the league leaderboard in scoring, the Owen Powers-Rasmus Dahlin pair, Brad Marchand's early return, and Jack Hughes.

JFresh takes a deeper look at some of the week's top performances, including Val Nichushkin, Andrei Svechnikov, Brayden Point, Joe Pavelski, and John Marino.

JFresh ranks and analyzes the NHL's top 20 right wings entering the 2022-23 season.

Dimitri Filipovic takes a look at how the Colorado Avalanche were able to beat the Tampa Bay Lightning, thanks to two especially impressive performances from names you wouldn't have necessarily expected heading in.

Now that the Colorado Avalanche have won this year's Stanley Cup, the question shifts to whether they can run it back next year.

The Stanley Cup-champion Colorado Avalanche have a tough offseason in front of them, but as long as they can keep this hockey operations department intact, they should be able to weather the storm.

Game 2 was an absolute bloodbath. EP Rinkside senior columnist Ryan Lambert is hoping Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final won't be.

JFresh breaks down the clash of the titans in the Stanley Cup Final using stats gathered by TopDownHockey and AllThreeZones.

JFresh looks at the underlying numbers and the key matchups in the second-round Stanley Cup Playoff series between the Colorado Avalanche and the St. Louis Blues.

Elite Prospects analytics columnist JFresh previews the Colorado Avalanche and Nashville Predators Western Conference quarterfinals playoff series.

Today may be the NHL trade deadline, but the world of fantasy hockey never stops spinning. EP Rinkside fantasy hockey analyst Cam Robinson tells you which players to pluck off the waiver wire while your opponents are watching deadline coverage.

The Colorado Avalanche lost in the second round for the second straight year, this time to the Vegas Golden Knights. Now they face a new challenge this off-season as they try to retain their top talents for another run next year.

Can the Olympic Athletes from Russia pull off an improbable gold model repeat at the 2022 Olympic games?

“When you feel like you’ve hit rock bottom… That’s when you got to dig a little deeper. In the end, it’s always worth it”. The words are Buffalo Sabres goalkeeper...

The Dallas Stars have always had their share of great draft hits. Take the captain, Jamie Benn, who Dallas snagged in the fifth round of the 2007 NHL Entry Draft....