The 10 best players to snag from the Yahoo! waiver wire... Taking advantage of your waiver wire, even this early in the season, can help you in your quest in a fantasy hockey championship. This strategy helped me in the playoffs in one of my Yahoo leagues last year. We don’t have a limit [...]
The Top 10 takeaways from the first few games of 2016-17 It’s always easy to panic at the start of a hockey season. There’s usually threads on the forums from people asking if they should drop a superstar for a journeyman who has started off hot. While it’s important not to do anything drastic, [...]
The Top 10 questions for the 2016-17 NHL fantasy hockey season. We are a scant two days away from the start of the NHL season. Most drafts are finished and fantasy GMs are awaiting the start of the campaign. But you can’t rest on your laurels right yet. You should be preparing for [...]
The Top 10 most likely candidates to be first-time 70-point players in 2016-17 Getting to the 70-point mark nowadays is the hardest its been since the days of the clutch and grab. Last year saw 17 players get 70-plus points. Five of them did it for the first time (Brent Burns, Blake Wheeler, Johnny [...]
Top 10 player values affected by the World Cup of Hockey tournament It seems as if the World Cup of Hockey is having more of an impact on a player's fantasy value than many of us anticipated. It doesn't take very much for a player's value to increase. But it does take significantly more [...]
The Top 10 players affected by offseason moves There's always a lot of hype around NHL free agent signings and off-season trades. But this season took the cake as one of the craziest yet. But not all these signings and trades will have a positive impact on the players' fantasy value. For example, [...]
Top 10 auction-league fantasy hockey bargains One of my favourite type of drafts is the auction mock draft. This brings a whole different set of drafting skills to the table than your normal type of draft. Every general manager has the same shot at every single player. It just depends on how much [...]
The Top 10 dual-positional (according to Yahoo!) players... There was a little bit of a shock when Yahoo! debuted its player list for their fantasy hockey web site a couple of weeks back as they took many dual-positional players and turned them into singular-positional players. This is impacting a many keeper pools that use Yahoo! as they [...]
The top 10 Yahoo! projections that are too low As always, Yahoo's release of their fantasy hockey platform was met with lots of excitement and some WTFs. Poolies pored over the data immediately. Many people have been consumed by the rankings (Connor McDavid at #297th?). Or by the elimination of dual positions for many players. [...]
The Top 10 rookies who are somewhat under the radar for 2016-17... Much of the focus every year in fantasy hockey is on the rookies and who will start to live up to their potential. But too much focus is given on this year's crop of nominees and names in giant media centres. That's [...]
