Wild West: 5 Naughty and 5 Nice (Player Value Jumps)

 

In honor of the holidays we are going to take a look at skaters on our ranking lists. We are are looking at values at the start of season versus current values. These are based on Yahoo ranks (so take with a grain of salt). The categories taken into consideration are goals, assists, power-play points, shots, hits, and blocks.

 

We will start with our ‘Nice’ list if you will – the players who have rocketed up the charts in value so made excellent buys for your fantasy team during the first chunk of the season.

 

Name	Pre-Season	Current
Alex Goligoski	409	95
Neal Pionk	376	87
Nick Bonino	403	179
James Neal	281	92
Oscar Klefbom	194	10

 

Alex Goligoski:

Goligoski has upped his average ice time by about two minutes each game. He has not increased his power-play average though has already exceeded 2018-19’s power-play point totals (of eight points). He has upped his tota