Samuel Girard News & Stories

Every year we see unheralded, underappreciated, and underrepresented fantasy players come out of the shoot hot and pay dividends for those who were fast enough to scoop them up off...

Waiver wire - Nov. 20COL, VAN, NAS, CARAvoid: OTT, WASH< VGK, TOR,MinnyAs we enter the seventh week of the season, trends are becoming more and more entrenched. Those hot starts...

The Scout's Roundtable shares their greatest hits, and misses, covering the NHL Entry Draft.

JFresh previews the top names on the trade market.

It's the last Monday of the fantasy hockey season, dig in.

Cam Robinson takes a look at the waiver wire on the final Monday before the NHL trade deadline.

It's a Friday and as we move into crunch time for both the real and fantasy seasons, Cam Robinson has got you covered.

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

Dimitri Filipovic takes a look at how the Avalanche finally got over the hump in round two by beating the Blues, and how the Rangers came back once again to beat the Hurricanes in seven.

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.

JFresh ranks the top 30 defencemen going into the 2021-22 NHL season.

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.

It feels like we've been waiting years for this series. The Colorado Avalanche and Vegas Golden Knights are meeting up in a clash of the titans style second-round showdown, and JFresh sets the stage for that match with this preview.

In the final regular season edition of Filipovic's Fun Facts, Dimitri Filipovic empties the notebook and gets into some of his favourite random stats from the year that was.

JFresh breaks down and visualizing the West Division first round matchups.

Better late than never, right? We think so, so we've got a weekend edition of Doerrie's Deets, in which Rachel Doerrie offers her take on some of the latest happenings in the hockey world, with insider bits, scouts know-how, and a little of everything in-between.

J.D. Burke polled his team of writers for their mid-season NHL awards winners, and he's revealing the results in this article on Rinkside.

With players in and out of the lineup, the Avs' defence has been put to the test -- and they've passed with flying colours.

We're giving JFresh a bit of a break from his Olympics preview series, as J.D. Burke fields a hypothetical Team North America roster for the 2022 games in Beijing.

It’s a little staggering to consider just how well the Colorado Avalanche have managed to bounce back from their 48-point 2016-17 season. In just two short years, they’ve managed to...

Cale Makar. Conor Timmins. Samuel Girard. If you are a hockey fan, chances are you’ve heard one or more of these names mentioned at least once. Perhaps ahead of the...

Playmaker, sniper, grinder, power forward, two-way forward, dangler, enforcer, agitator…. The list of labels used to categorize any given forward in todays game is nothing if not extensive. Add “shooting”,...