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Six Eastern Conference players who have performed below their projection.

After yesterday's coverage of slumping stars in the Western Conference, today we will follow suit and look at some fantasy-relevant players in the Eastern Conference that are not delivering the goods.

During the offseason we tend to go to great lengths to figure out each player's worth in the league. That is, we want to figure out our draft lists for the upcoming season. We go to the draft table with our lists based on reasonable expectations and select our team. And then reality strikes.

Unfortunately, a player's career is often full of ups and downs that are not in sync with what we would consider reasonable projections. When a fantasy-relevant player that you drafted underperforms it can have some devastating consequences – both literally in your league standings and also psychologically. The player is not delivering enough to justify either his draft position or the amount you gave up to get him in a trade.

So without further ado here is the all-bust team for the Eastern Conference.

Note: The expected total is based on the projected points-per-game for each player in the Dobberhockey Fantasy Guide.

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Name	Games Played	Points	Shots per Game	Time On Ice	Expected Points (Diff.)
Cody Hodgson (BUF)	35	6	1.4	13:53	25 (-19)
Milan Lucic (BOS)	36 📢 advertisement:	17	1.58	16:45	26 (-9)
Alexander Semin (CAR)	22	6	1.27	16:21	17 (-11)