Hello all and welcome back to the world's #1 destination for all things salary cap. Okay. It's here and PuckPedia as 1A and 1B, but it's okay. We can share the crown. It's early going in the fantasy hockey year, but today we're going to look at some players that might be ready for a bounce back season.

Seth Jones – D – Chicago – 30 years old

Contract: $76M – $9.5M AAV – Five years remaining

GP          G             A             PTS         PPP        TOI         PPTOI    SOG       HIT         BKS

4              1              4              5              3              25:18     2:24        11           1              6

Am I writing about Seth Jones here because I'm hoping that if he's good the Hawks can either trade him or at the very least help make this Hawks team fun to watch this season? Completely unbiased here, but of course I am. I've said here in the past that I really don't think that any contract is immovable in today's NHL, but if I had to make one exception here, it would be the Seth Jones contract. Dr. Death, Stan Bowman take a bow. Still, Jones has looked really good out of the gate, both by stats and by eye test. In all four of the Hawks contests so far this season he has contributed and might just be a player to watch for to bounce back this season.

Last season, Jones finished with 31 pts in 67 games and while that's not particularly stellar, let's just close our eyes for a second and think about last season's Hawks team…that I don't think won a road game from American Thanksgiving to the end of the season. Okay, maybe a bit of an exaggeration, but not by much. Jones was a player that I was higher on in fantasy though last season with the reason being that every minute of top power play time would ultimately go to him, along with having the hits/blocks be a bonus to his value. Very early sample here, but this could be a decent spot for a potentially good fantasy season.

For those out there in dynasty or salary cap leagues, a bounce back from Jones is a godsend to help out on the blueline. For everyone else in standard leagues, I would definitely consider keeping tabs on him for the next couple of weeks. Chicago is going to keep deploying him top line and top power play, so if you need a defensemen in a pinch, he makes for a suitable option.

Trevor Zegras – C – Anaheim – 23 years old

Contract: $17.25M – $5.75M AAV – Two years remaining

GP          G             A             PTS         PPP        TOI         PPTOI    SOG       HIT         BKS

2              1              0              1              0              16:22     3:12        4           0              0

Okay so this might be a "hear me out"…but hear me out. I don't know if there's a young player that people are more either in or out on right now than Trevor Zegras and that includes Ducks fans. I have a lot of Ducks fans in my life which is peculiar living in Chicago. Either way, this is a player who gets the nominee here for bounce back given what he could potentially get to this season.

When Zegras was drafted, I turned to a friend and said that he's going to be a player that we look back on in fantasy and notice that he's scored at least 20 goals in the last six or seven seasons and out of the gate it looked that way with back-to-back 23 goal seasons in his age 20 and 21 seasons. He missed the majority of last season, but if healthy this year, I don't see how he doesn't get to the 20-goal mark.

For fantasy this might not be a player that is on your radar unless you're over on Fantrax where I imagine he's higher rostered in dynasty…coming from someone who tried to trade him all offseason. If he's on a line with Mason McTavish and Leo Carlsson that becomes a line that I don't think will have trouble entering the offensive zone. The problem here is if Anaheim does the thing that Anaheim did all of last season, and by that I mean take a league high total of penalties – that would not in any way benefit Zegras' value.

Jonathan Huberdeau – LW – Calgary – 31 years old

Contract: $84M – $10.5M AAV – Six years remaining – NMC

GP          G             A             PTS         PPP        TOI         PPTOI    SOG       HIT         BKS

4              3              3              6              3              18:40     3:56        6           1              3

Just when I think I'm out, they pull me back in! I wrote a similar article to this one last season, and referenced Jonathan Huberdeau when he was off to a decent start. So far, he has six points in four games playing on the bottom six of Calgary, yet getting top power-play time. It's a weird mix of skaters, but so far working out? I think we have to at least have the Huberdeau bounce back conversation here.  

Everyone in your league had to have seen his name on the draft board and think "maybe…" but odds are if you're in a 12-team or less, he's likely on your available players. I know that this is an article based around the salary cap, but with Huberdeau specifically, I feel like we've been down this road any number of times already. Even including this season, if added up all of his points so far in Calgary they still do not add up to his final season in Florida. That said, if maybe he’s on a role where he can be the trigger man on a power play and get softer bottom six matchups, then I don't dislike this player for fantasy at all. If a bounce back is somewhere in the mid 60's, who wouldn't take that in fantasy?

Right now Huberdeau is on a line with Martin Pospisil, who looks like a really promising young player, and Anthony Mantha whom I've always liked going back to his time in Detroit. I don't know if these Calgary lines are going to be the same now as they are a month for now, so maybe Huberdeau is a player that is a temporary add in fantasy, but someone to keep an eye on.

*Salary Cap data from PuckPedia.com  

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