Looking Ahead with Crazynuck – Week 8
Crazynuck delivers the goods once again...
November 20, 2009
According to Tarik El Bashir... Neuvirth is starting tonight! Duncan Keith contract details: 13 years, $72 million. Not 100% confirmed yet. This just in: NHL plans to investigate it! (Not really, but it wouldn't surprise me.) Great work NHL, lets hook Duncan up to a lie detector machine and ask if he plans on [...]
Portzline, Jackson, Dobber, and the SCHL
For your listening pleasure - put it on your Ipod or just listen in on your computer! Usually Dobber Nation is out on the 25th of every month, but due to health issues the October edition was pushed back. Finally it's here, so let's talk some fantasy hockey!
Devils Right Hand Men
The New Jersey Devils had their eight game win streak snapped Monday night in Philadelphia. Most everyone lowered expectations or avoided drafting Devils predominantly based on the team bringing back the notoriously defensive-minded Jacques Lemaire as Head Coach. Other than a guy named Brodeur and more recently Parise, New Jersey has not typically been a fantasy friendly team.
November 19, 2009
Dobber Nation - up now! Great insights from all three guests! Dobber's Puck Daddy article is up today. Check it out here. Absolutely hilarious article about Anton Stralman. He had to have an impromptu wedding in order to get his family in to the States. I can't really describe how funny it is [...]
November 18, 2009
Some injury news that I'm sure you've heard - Ryan Smyth's UBI will keep him out of the lineup for as long as a month. This will keep Dustin Brown on that top line and as such will hurt what Scott Parse and Jarret Stoll have been doing. This also frees up some more ice [...]
Fantasy Indicators of Success 2009: Wingers
This week we’ll take a deep look at the Western Conference wingers. The fantasy value of wingers can be similarly identified using the same two stats as we used last week in judging the value for defenseman, which is PP ice-time and SOG. The reasoning behind it is the same. The amount of PP ice-time given usually separates players who are heavily relied upon to carry the team offensively than those who are considered role players. On a similar note, SOG usually maintains a similar line of thought. The more a winger shoots, the higher the chance that a puck goes into the net or at least generates chances for a poaching rebound. The opposite also holds true, the less a winger shoots, the lower the chance that the puck goes into the net, thus a lower potential for points. Now that we’ve established clear indicators on determining the fantasy value of wingers, let’s take a closer look at a few of the wingers from the Western Conference.
November 17, 2009
That's it - the Dispatch is reporting that Filatov will be loaned to the KHL for one year. It's done. A tale of two opposites - here is an update on two prospects I had hyped for Calder contention this year, each moving in an opposite direction: Ryan Stoa (COL) has six points in [...]
Team Canada in 2010 Version 3.0
The Olympics are approximately three months away. Team Canada’s roster will be announced on December 31st. That gives Olympic hopefuls only six or seven more weeks to show what they can bring to help Canada recapture their 2002 form after a horrendous showing at the 2006 games in Turin, Italy. This is the final version that I will put together, and the theme for this roster is “duos.” Instead of the prototypical scoring line/checking line/energy line format, I have put together four duos and then included four players that can rotate between the pairings depending on things like chemistry, health, and strategy.
The Art of Internal Compete
The only way to bury the haunting ghosts of past failures is to focus fully on the current task at hand. In a season where slumps and losing streaks have hit outrageous levels for some, the importance of non-statistical goaltending factors is stronger than ever before. So if you’re going to battle the pangs of tough weekly losses in your own fantasy league with any success, you need to heighten your sense of situational awareness.
For many of the top fantasy goalies, their path to the top is never a straightforward journey. It’s a winding climb, a fall followed by a rise, followed by another fall. We’ve all heard the saying, “You have to lose before you can win…” and it certainly rings true for the likes of Craig Anderson, Ondrej Pavelec and Jaroslav Halak. But another phrase we hear often is, “You play like you practice…” and that is where the art of internal compete is revealed.