Carey Price

It is never easy to foresee the unforeseen. Injuries happen every day in the NHL, and here at Fantrax, our goal is to help you try to stay on top of those maladies with our weekly Injury Report. Counting all the latest bumps, bites, and bruises, there were 99 players held out of lineups. Several of those are long-term injuries from a previous year. Those players are likely not going to return or have retired. Here are some of the more notable maladies out there and their possible prognosis. Injury Updates Centers Jeff…

We're already a quarter of the way through the hockey season, and now's the time to start evaluating whether teams and players can maintain their early-season production. There have been a lot of surprises so far. Brent Burns is in a historic scoring slump, the Vegas Golden Knights might actually be good, 37 players are at a point-per-game pace or more, and the Edmonton Oilers, Montreal Canadiens, and Arizona Coyotes aren't playing to their potential. These are all examples of early trends that probably won't last the entire…

Montreal Canadiens (47-26-9, 103pts, 1st in division) 2016-17 scoring leaders (G-A-Pts) Max Pacioretty         35-32-67Alexander Radulov   18-36-54Alex Galchenyuk       17-27-44 Top Prospects (position, age) Noah Juulsen, D, 20Ryan Poehling, C, 18Nikita Sherbak, RW, 21 Must Pick: Carey Price, Max Pacioretty, Jonathan Drouin Price is probably the best goaltender in the league, maybe the world. He will win 40-45 games despite Montreal's lack of offense. Pacioretty is one of the few offensively talented…

The goaltender is the toughest position to play and to predict. Being the literal last line of defense, goalies' responsibilities become that much more stressful. They are usually blamed for every loss when most of the time, the goals allowed aren’t always their fault. Sometimes, the defensemen error or the scorer made a good move. They do get credited for standing on their head, but usually, they don’t get recognized for their job when their team wins. Similar to quarterbacks or pitchers, goalies don’t get drafted in the…