Most regular season fantasy leagues are now wrapping up, but playoff pools are around the corner. So what better time for Goldipucks and the Three Skaters to cover skaters on teams bound for the playoffs! This week’s skaters are Filip Forsberg, T.J. Oshie, and Torey Krug, each of whom has the luxury of playing for [...]
Though it was probably assumed by fantasy hockey owners at this point, we got confirmation on Tuesday afternoon that Kevin Shattenkirk wouldn’t be returning this season. Not that we should worry about a huge decline but next year will be Shatty’s age-30 season. On a rebuilding team, what can we expect from him? His ADP [...]
Now that we’re getting to the short strokes of the 2017-18 campaign, with only a handful of games remaining, we have a number of “season-ending” injuries playing havoc with our fantasy rosters. This week’s fantasy focus player has been known to miss a game or two dozen in his short career. Fantasy Focus [...]
A few years ago I took a deep dive on the statistical qualities that best portended to playoff success concluding that the best predictor of any playoff series was goal differential. Since then, Adam Gretz has come out with his own model for Stanley Cup winners focusing on teams who finish top-10 in goal [...]
I’ve hinted around at this for the past few weeks, but there are a lot of players in keeper pools whose values are overlooked simply because of their age. When many fantasy general managers have given up on a season and are looking to next year, they have a tendency to focus on youth for [...]
On this week's episode of the Keeping Karlsson Hockey Podcast, Elan and Brian bring up the big and little names that can help or hurt you through the final weeks of your playoffs and all the way to your championship. The guys also pay tribute to losing teams that came oh so close to fantasy [...]
Ramblings: Impact of a new family on production. Also, the kids are arriving – Tolvanen, Andersson (Mar 26) *** Morning Update! The Minnesota Wild have signed prospect Jordan Greenway to a three-year ELC, turning pro after his junior season with Boston University. Greenway is one of the best "real" hockey prospects in the world and [...]
Turning to this month’s edition of Dobber top-200 forward prospects we look at two new entrants to the chart and a former top prospect makes a triumphant(?) return. Valeri Nichushkin - DAL, up to 65 from Grad This month biggest debut on the list, if you can call it that, is Dallas’ former first [...]
