Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. This week, we’ll begin a retrospective on the 2018 NHL entry draft providing updates on performance since the draft, future outlooks, and pick grades. The reason for starting with the class [...]
Here are the Top 120 defensemen to own in your points-only dynasty leagues - December edition! Players between +/- 5.0 rating points should be considered equal value. Click on a player name to be taken to his custom-made fantasy hockey player profile. Def RkPlayerTeamRatingDecNovChange1Cale MakarCOL122.2303332Adam FoxNYR117.7333963John CarlsonWAS113.03635-14Victor HedmanTBL103.3474705Quinn HughesVAN99.2505226Roman JosiNSH98.5515657Dougie HamiltonNJD87.77065-58Tyson BarrieEDM83.88072-89Morgan RiellyTOR83.08388510Shea TheodoreVGK81.88566-1911Miro HeiskanenDAL80.78896812Tony [...]
Can you believe that by this time next week almost every team will be a third of the way through their season already? Who are your biggest surprises and disappointments thus far? Personally, playing daily fantasy as compared to season-long fantasy, you sometimes lose sight of the big picture stuff, so it’s nice to zoom [...]
Igor Shesterkin had to leave Friday’s game with a possible leg injury. The star goalie was helped off the ice after he appeared to stretch for a puck. After the game, Gerard Gallant said that the injury wasn’t as bad as it looked, which sounds like positive news. Shesterkin was playing an outstanding game that [...]
Here are the Top 300 skaters to own in your points-only dynasty leagues - December edition! Lots of movement here in the early months of the 2021-22 NHL regular season. As always, if two players you are looking at are within +/-5.0 rating points of each other consider them equal value. At that point it [...]
The Immediate Fix (Grab this guy and use him for the next several days)Jamie Drysdale, D, Anaheim Ducks (Available in 93% of ESPN leagues, 30% Fantrax, 81% Yahoo) Anaheim plays five times next week. Five. That’s like last season's weird COVID schedule games in a week. They also play Friday night vs Calgary, so for [...]
At the beginning of every season a lot of the fantasy advice revolves around patience and small sample sizes. That is because by and large most of the players we draft, we draft because they have a track record and it is more likely that they end up near that track record than whatever wild [...]
The Sabres-Panthers game ended with the outcome that you likely expected. It just took an unlikely turn at the beginning. Buffalo scored three first-period goals, two of which were from Vinnie Hinostroza. One of Dobber’s personal favorites, Hinostroza entered the game with just one point in his last five games. After the Sabres made it [...]
This week we’ll check in on eight players and their cost-per-point production. I will review four players on each side of the coin – four players offering really good returns and four players that could be tanking the first half of your season. I will cover both their actual cost-per-point value and their point-per-million in [...]
There was a very good article on the site yesterday from Eastern Edge writer Brennan Des looked at Tage Thompson and some New Jersey hot starts. What caught my eye in that article was Brennan looking at the fantasy playoff schedule. We are a quarter of the way into the season and leagues with fantasy [...]
