How NCAA Hockey Develops NHL-Ready Forwards
NHL Analysis SB Sasha Bélanger✓ Lead Betting Analyst · May 4, 2026 There is an old idea that the fastest way to the NHL is major junior, and only major junior. It made sense for…
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How to Tell When a Hockey Team Is Peaking
NHL Analysis SB Sasha Bélanger✓ Lead Betting Analyst · April 29, 2026 Every hockey market has the same conversation at some point. The team is playing well, and everyone wants to know whether this is…
How NHL Expansion Teams Are Built to Compete
NHL Analysis SB Sasha Bélanger✓ Lead Betting Analyst · April 20, 2026 There was a time when a new NHL team was expected to be bad for years. Fans accepted it. You cheered for effort,…
How the NHL Playoff Format Works
NHL Analysis SB Sasha Bélanger✓ Lead Betting Analyst · April 15, 2026 Every hockey fan eventually asks the same question. My team has a good record, so why is everyone nervous about the standings? The…
How NHL Draft Prospects Are Evaluated
NHL Analysis SB Sasha Bélanger✓ Lead Betting Analyst · April 5, 2026 Every summer, teams gather in a hall and call out the names of teenagers they hope will become stars. It looks simple from…
Why Skating Ability Matters More Than Ever
NHL Analysis SB Sasha Bélanger✓ Lead Betting Analyst · April 3, 2026 I spent years pricing risk for a living, and if there is one thing an actuary learns early, it is that the variable…
Why NHL Prospects Are Turning Pro Earlier
NHL Analysis SB Sasha Bélanger✓ Lead Betting Analyst · March 29, 2026 When I worked in insurance, we had a phrase for decisions made too early or too late, timing risk. Turn pro too soon…
How International Tournaments Shape Draft Evaluations
NHL Analysis SB Sasha Bélanger✓ Lead Betting Analyst · March 25, 2026 Give an actuary a small dataset and watch them get anxious. That instinct, the worry that a handful of results might not mean…
Why Smaller Forwards Succeed in Today’s NHL
NHL Analysis SB Sasha Bélanger✓ Lead Betting Analyst · March 24, 2026 For a long stretch of hockey history, the answer to almost every roster question was, get bigger. Bigger forwards, bigger defencemen, bigger everything.…
What Makes a Hockey Prospect Worth Watching
NHL Analysis SB Sasha Bélanger✓ Lead Betting Analyst · March 22, 2026 People ask me what makes a young hockey player genuinely exciting to follow, and they usually expect me to name someone. I never…