This is it. Twelve months of prepping, drafting, trading and signing free agents have come down to the next couple of weeks for most leagues. Maybe you’re fighting for a championship. Maybe you’re battling for the bronze. Maybe your league has rules where the bottom-feeders battle it out for the first overall pick. Whatever the [...]
In last week’s column, we looked at 10 players that would be good to trade for in keeper pools. Those 10 players are having underachieving seasons. One common theme between the skaters, and even those that didn’t make my list, is the fact that their power-play numbers are awful. That got me thinking about [...]
The NHL isn’t the only league having a trade deadline this week. There are tens of thousands of keeper pools that have a trade deadline as close to the NHL one as possible. I am in three keeper pools, and all three of them have deadlines this week. Most people are completely out of [...]
Everyone likes a good NHL trade, maybe no one more than fantasy general managers. You see, we salivate at this time of the season, when players are switching teams faster than Mike Sillinger in his heyday. However, we have a tendency to go a little crazy this year, overvaluing guys who are traded. It always [...]
The last few weeks, we’ve been looking at the top hottest and coldest players when it comes to points production. Of course, there’s more to fantasy hockey than just points. I figured this would be a good time to look at what teams and players are excelling in other categories. Of course, we all need [...]
Is there any worse feeling in fantasy hockey than when your stud goes frigid for 10 games? You can survive if your scrubs aren’t scoring, or when the sleeper pick goes cold. However, when your first-round pick decides to stop producing for a few weeks, it can cost you head-to-head matchups and trick your [...]
With the NHL taking a little break for the All-Star game, it’s easy for fantasy general managers to forget some of what was happening even a week ago. Sure, we remember the big news, but some of the smaller details may slip your mind since you’re not consistently reminded of it. NHL hot and cold [...]
I’ve often wondered what a fantasy all-star squad would like if voted on by the fantasy general managers. There would be the obvious favorites (Connor McDavid, Erik Karlsson and Nikita Kucherov) plus the young upstarts (Elias Pettersson) and the grizzled veterans (Patrick Kane, Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin). Obviously, much of it would depend on [...]
Every fantasy hockey draft has them. You know what I’m talking about. A fantasy GM starts going on about how his next pick is going to have a huge breakout season. He keeps hyping up the player, saying he’s guaranteed to be on the top power-play unit and is playing with the elite players. In [...]
No matter how well you draft or how great you trade, the waiver wire is an essential tool for winning your one-year leagues. Many fantasy general managers simply gloss over the names on the wire, thinking there’s not much help out there. However, the smart general manager knows that are plenty of valuable finds [...]
