Patrick O’Sullivan has been placed on waivers. My money is on him clearing and heading to the AHL.

DobberBaseball’s Fantasy Prospects Report will be released later this evening. You can order that here.

Some funny comments below. To answer some of them – Michael Del Zotto has just three points in his last 18 games and is a minus-5 in that span. In a roto league with unlimited waiver wire rules, yes I would drop him. You can always make a play for him later. Five bucks please hahaha. What else…Kovalchuk. I can’t recommend dropping Kovalchuk. I did, however, deal him in the expert’s league yesterday along with Brassard and Eberle for Heatley. I have Savard coming off IR in about four weeks (likely) and several players I can nab off the wire to replace the other two guys.

Interesting note in the comments on Tanguay’s home vs. away stats, because I had been looking at that this morning for my THN article (you’ll see it tomorrow). I looked at some big road numbers for some players, vs. weak home numbers. So be on the lookout for that piece. Matt Cullen, Alex Semin and Loui Eriksson are some examples.

It’s the chicken and the egg question – is John Tavares slumping because the Isles are slumping? Or are the Isles slumping because of JT’s funk? Tavares played 23:23 Sunday and he saw 4:32 on the power play. But he has three points in his last 11 games and is a minus-10 in that span. Last year in February he had a run of 16 games with just three points (and minus-10 again). He then had 18 points in the following 13 games. So the slump won’t last forever, but historically it has lasted another two weeks.

Andrew Ladd continues to roll, as he has 21 points in 21 games – good for 21st in the league as of late last night (the 21st).

With another three last night, Jarome Iginla has eight points in his last four games, nearly setting his points back on their proper pace. But it’s Alex Tanguay who is the realy story – 17 points on the season, which translates to a 72-point pace. That’s his highest in four years. I do think he’ll finish with close to 70 because he is being treated like the No.2 winger on the team in terms of ice time and linemates.

Interesting decision by Sutter last night – Anton Babchuk had two seconds of PP time. Jay Bouwmeester had 1:59. That, my friends, is why they lost. Giving JBo all the PP time in the world doesn’t seem to make him a 50 (or in Calgary even a 40) point player. Whereas Babchuk has displayed that talent and then some.

Devan Dubnyk snapped the Oilers six-game losing streak. You knew it would be him and not Khabibulin. Not just because the latter is on the shelf, but because he sucks.

Naturally, the evening after I say that Tom Gilbert is a dropsy he gets two points. Does anyone have any bums on their team who they need to get going? I’ll just suggest dropping them in the ramblings. That will get them going. I’ll charge five bucks a player. Sound fair?

Seriously though, I don’t see this sustained from Gilbert because he really does have a tendency to really show up down the stretch, but be invisible otherwise. But the two-point game, even with one as an empty net goal actually scored by the other team (footage below), is enough to make me hang onto him another game before my “drop deadline”. He’s now living on borrowed time in my one league.

Magnus Paajarvi was down to five minutes of ice time. Meanwhile, Linus Omark continues rolling in the AHL with points in all four games since his five-goal effort on November 7.

The Oilers seem to be rallying around Dubnyk, which is something they weren’t doing with the Bulin Wall. All players on this team are “buy low”, as we’re in for a good run I think. A good run by Edmonton standards may not be so great, however. But better than what we’ve seen. That means Hemsky, Hall, Horcoff, Eberle, Penner, Gagner and Whitney (who is the only “sell high” on this team) are going to roll.

Mark Recchi has seven points and is plus-4 in his last seven games. He’ll be 43 in two months. He’s getting 16 minutes of ice time per game thanks to all the injuries up front. He had 43 points last year and it sure looks as though he’ll do it again this year. He is two points shy of 1500 in his career.

Those in deep deep deep leagues should stick this name on their radar – Jacob MicFlikier. The 5-8, 26-year-old is undrafted and unsigned, but plays in the Hurricanes system. He has eight points in his last five AHL contests. A long long shot, but again if you’re in one of those leagues with 45-player rosters or a 20-man farm system, you never know.

Andy Sutton returned to the ANA lineup yesterday. Josh Green was placed on waivers to make room.

Dan Sexton saw a monster 18 minutes of ice time and he picked up an assist. Just like last year – big production when there is no Teemu Selanne. Selanne shouldn’t be out for much longer, so don’t expect big Sexton numbers for long. He needs legitimate top six ice time and power play time to be fantasy worthy. Worth keeping for next year, absolutely.

Just this year, as long as their top six remains healthy, Sexton may not do much.

As what happens with all Danny Cleary hot streaks – he staggered off the ice injured. Giordano hammered him into the boards in the second period and that was end of Cleary’s game. At a glance, it looks as though Jiri Hudler stepped into the PP ice time gap that the injury created. But Hudler did nothing with it.

Now that Justin Abdelkader is back on my radar, I’d like to see what he can do with some PP time. I think the Wings would be pretty damn effective with one of Franzen, Bertuzzi and Abdelkader out there at any given time on the PP.

The AHL’s Hamilton Bulldogs played games on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (I found that interesting). Max Pacioretty had four goals and three assists. I know guys in my pools had written him off. Again – don’t write off a guy for one bad year. Hang in there. If you hang in there, you’ll be right more often than you’ll be wrong.

Habs Inside/Out on Montreal prospect goalie Kari Ramo: “continues to be the story of the Habs goaltending prospects so far this season, he has only lost one game in his last eleven starts now with his KHL club Avangard Omsk and had a perfect threee-win week, including a shutout. Ramo had a masterful week in nets that saw his Goals Against Average sit at a flat 2.00 and held up a save percentage of .930. He is 6th overall in the KHL in Goals Against Average and tied for 1st overall for wins.”

Andreas Nodl has points in seven of the last eight games that he has played.

Alexander Burmistrov has five points in his last six games, clearly adapting to the new league. Even in one-year leagues, he should be owned now, as I think 40 points in the next 60 games sounds about right. Huge talent.

Don’t believe me?

Empty net “own” goal: