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Dec 6, 2024 | eprinkside.com | Ryan Lambert

NCAA CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. — It’s hardly scientific, but the pre-season ECAC coaches’ poll listed the Dartmouth Big Green as the No. 3 team in the conference. Most years, that would make them a fringe NCAA playoff team, probably on the outside looking in. And that alone would have been a big improvement, given they finished at No. 29 in the national Pairwise rankings last season. Now, they’re on pace to obliterate that heightened expectation.

Dec 5, 2024 | eprinkside.com | Ryan Lambert

NHL It's supposed to be kinda easy to coach a tanking team. You play the most important guys to the future of the organization almost too much, let them rack up points on the power play, and lose a bunch of 4-2 games. But supposed-to-be doesn't always work out, for a litany of reasons.

Dec 5, 2024 | eprinkside.com | Michael Clifford

Fantasy Hockey Tampa Bay Lightning rookie forward Conor Geekie has just six points but is already showing signs of what made him the key piece to the Mikhail Sergachev trade and the 11th overall pick in 2022. Let’s dig through Geekie’s prospect path, what he’s done as an NHL rookie, and what it tells us about his future. The 2022 Elite Prospect Draft Guide had Geekie ranked 17th overall.

Dec 2, 2024 | eprinkside.com | Victor Nuno

Fantasy Hockey On the heels of scoring his first NHL goal, Emil Andrae has arrived in the NHL. As an undersized rearguard, there will always be scrutiny regarding his ability until he’s proved it years. As he’s breaking into the league now, there are questions about his upside for fantasy. Will he run the top power play? How high in the lineup can he play? We’ll answer these questions and more in this prospect prospective. Andrae was drafted 54th overall in 2020 by the Philadelphia Flyers.

Dec 2, 2024 | eprinkside.com | David St-Louis

2025 NHL Draft After a down year at the draft, Sweden offers a strong group of talent in the 2025 class. Anton Frondell, Victor Eklund, and Jacob Ihs-Wozniak could all hear their names called in the top 15. The first two are already well-established in that range, with Frondell cracking the top 10 on many lists. Ihs-Wozniak has slid further down, but considering his diverse skill set, he could climb back up with strong performances in front of the right evaluators.