Christmas Ramblings – 2014

Dobber

2014-12-25

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night. Here’s a free Fantasy Hockey Guide …

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Merry Christmas everyone. And to those of you curious about the annual Midseason Fantasy Hockey Guide, I am making last year’s Midseason Guide available to you – free. Just click here to download. Take a look, enjoy, and get a feel for what will be offered this year (January 12 is the release date).

Loui Eriksson has six points in his last four games and he is one of several Bruins starting to wake up. The last time they won three of four was nearly six weeks ago. This team without Chara and Krejci is a far cry from the team with those two players. And now they have a bit of a hill to climb to get back into the playoffs. But with a healthy lineup, the likes of Eriksson, Marchand and Smith have been waking up.

Colin Wilson has been the strongest possession player on Nashville this season with a Corsi Relative of 22.6 and facing fairly strong competition. But it hasn’t shown up in the production. Until now, that is – he has three points in his last two games. And although he hadn’t been playing on the big line, the Preds have switch things around a little and it has worked. With Mike Fisher back, there is another element of offense. So they have Wilson with Fisher and they moved James Neal to that line as the trigger man. Then they replaced Neal on the top line with Craig Smith, who is a decent consolation prize.

Here are the Nashville possession numbers, courtesy of HockeyAbstract.com: