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Top 10 Players Sure to Disappoint

By |2016-07-24T22:21:24-04:00July 25th, 2016|Fantasy Hockey Top 10|

Top 10 star players sure to disappoint in 2016-17 (i.e. bar is raised so high they're bound to fall short)   Although this may seem like the slowest time of year for NHL hockey, it's one of the busiest for dynasty leagues. Many fantasy general managers have already had to submit their list of dropped players [...]

Top 10 Gritty Players

By |2016-07-11T00:19:09-04:00July 11th, 2016|Fantasy Hockey Top 10|

  Collins reviews Sportsnet's "grit stat" and brings you his Top 10 gritty NHL players   While looking through a bunch of statistics recently, I found a fairly-new stat that could be useful in pools that count peripheral categories. Sportsnet developed the grit stat two years ago, a combination of PIM, hits, fights and blocked [...]

Top 10 Under-the-Radar UFA’s

By |2016-06-27T06:30:57-04:00June 27th, 2016|Fantasy Hockey Top 10|

  Top 10 under-the-radar unrestricted free agents...   Talks are heating up as we are just four days away from free agency. Most fantasy GMs in cap leagues are paying close attention to what happens. I've already written a column on the top 10 UFAs, so for this week's column, I thought it would be a [...]

Top 10 Plus-Minus Players

By |2016-06-20T07:06:55-04:00June 20th, 2016|Fantasy Hockey Top 10|

  The Top 10 reliable plus-minus players in the league today   The plus/minus. Has any statistic in any sport ever been so controversial? So many people seem to hate it for its simplicity, but that simplicity is what makes it useful in fantasy hockey. Despite a movement to get away from the stat, there are [...]

Top 10 Playoff Duds (2016)

By |2016-06-13T00:18:20-04:00June 13th, 2016|Fantasy Hockey Top 10|

  The Top 10 NHL playoff duds of 2016   One thing that both Stanley Cup finalists had in common is that neither one of them had a disappointing player. The other 14 postseason teams can't say the same. A couple of weeks ago we looked at the top 10 players who had their stock improve [...]

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