All Entries Tagged With: "Peter Mueller"
Top 10 players to avoid on draft day for the 2011-12 season
With only three weeks before the first puck drops on the ice for the beginning of the 2010-12 NHL season, many of you have to take part in a fantasy draft whether it is on Yahoo or ESPN, or among friends at home. Yet, plenty of use are ill-prepared come draft day, especially in the [...]
Canadiens set to face the Rangers in NY; Carey Price named to the NHL All-Star team
After a very important 3-2 comeback win on Saturday against the Boston Bruins at home, the Montreal Canadiens are set to visit the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden tonight. The Canadiens will then host the Pittsburgh Penguins tomorrow at the Bell Centre. Michael Cammalleri, who did not make the trip to New York [...]
Avs Wild Days are Over
It was a quiet summer in the Colorado Avalanche camp but the perfect storm just might be brewing for a trade. But don’t get too excited, the days of the Avs making huge trades are over. But it does seem that the stubbornly conservative GM, Greg Sherman is going to be compelled to do something [...]
Weekly Fantasy: 10 players to avoid on draft day
With only one week before the first puck drops on the ice for the beginning of the 2010-11 NHL season, many of you will take part of a fantasy draft this weekend, whether it’s rotisserie or a head-to-head format. Please avoid the 10 players at all cost because of the injury risk they pose. Let [...]
Weekly Fantasy: The Magical Fourth Year
Last season I looked at some players that had great season because they were entering their magical fourth year in the NHL Anze Kopitar’s Torrid Start And The Magical Fourth Season . Let’s have a look at how five of these fourth-year players fared in comparison to the previous year. Dustin Penner, Edmonton Penner finished [...]
An Avalanche of Questions
With the 2010-11 NHL season fast approaching I thought I would take a brief look at the Colorado Avalanche and ask a few questions. These are the things that I think will make a difference in the success and failure of the team as the season progresses. There were a lot of stellar performances on [...]
New weekly fantasy hockey ramblings at Hockey Independent
This will be a new weekly feature here at Hockey Independent as I will try to give you advice on your fantasy hockey drafts, whether it’s a keeper pool or not, and whether you are allowed daily/weekly roster changes or not during the season. You can have a look at my article on the 2010-11 [...]
DAILY RUMORS: Peter Mueller Being Traded? Not Likely
We at HockeyIndependent.com want to be your resource and filter for what is going on in the NHL. We try to disseminate the noise in the blogosphere. We don’t look to to attack those sources, but to question the veracity of the rumor with cold logic, hockey smarts and knowledge. To do that… we have [...]
Top 10 RFAs still unsigned
With September looming and about one month until NHL training camps resume for the upcoming season, a plethora of talented restricted free agents remain unsigned by their respective teams. Why is this happening so widely in the NHL? The salary cap is certainly one of the main reasons, but several teams like the Carolina Hurricanes [...]
Vice Versa
The inconsistency of the Los Angeles Kings continues as the club attempts to find it’s stride heading into the second season within the NHL.
Mueller?…Mueller?…Mueller?…
I’ve been wrong before. It happens. And most of the time I have no problem admitting when I’m wrong. When the Colorado Avalanche traded Wojtek Wolski for Peter Mueller I was skeptical that Mueller was going to contribute much and I said as much. He had a nice rookie year and it been all downhill [...]
The Revenge of Wojtek Wolski
Just the day after the Avs and Phoenix swapped players Wojtek Wolski and Peter Mueller, the teams faced off in Phoenix. The game started with Cody McLeod reminding Wojtek Wolski that he now played for the enemy. McLeod gave Wolski a few rough shoves in front of the net within the first minutes of the [...]
Wojtek Wolski traded to Phoenix
The Colorado Avalanche have pulled the trade-day trigger in what is bound to be a bit of a controversial move for the next couple seasons. Wolski for Coyote forwards Peter Mueller and Kevin Porter. While Wolski has been loudly chided by many in this town as a guy that lacks heart, there is no denying [...]
A Phoenix Coyotes Holiday Wish List
With the holiday roster freeze coming into play Friday, I figure now is as good a time as ever for us to gather around the fire and sort out a wish list for Jolly old Saint Nick to bring the Coyotes for the upcoming New Year. Obviously the ‘Yotes are performing well above expectations thus [...]