The Top 10 players to keep an eye on, who enter their fourth year in 2016-17... It's that time of year again when the trade market starts to heat up in fantasy circles. It seems as if things start to slow down in April and May before revamping back up again in June. And with [...]
These NHL playoffs have upped the fantasy value of a few players. Our Top 10... Top 10 2016 playoff-driven stock increases By Tom Collins The NHL fantasy world is littered with players that say their draft status rise dramatically after a strong postseason run. But more often than not, these guys are not able [...]
Top 10 players with low 2015-16 shooting percentages One of my strategies in one-year leagues is to choose players who take a lot of shots. In this year's expert draft, I selected Steven Stamkos, Corey Perry, Taylor Hall and Max Pacioretty with my first four picks. My reasoning is they contribute more to fantasy [...]
Top 10 PP TOI Surprises: It's shocking how much or how little PP time these players received in 2015-16... Power play points can make or break plenty of fantasy squads. Many leagues incorporate power play points as a category — a few leagues go the extra step in breaking it down even [...]
Collins takes a look at the Top 10 Band-Aid boys you can't resist There are always players we know we should shy away from. They're injury-prone and are pretty much guaranteed to miss games. But we can't help ourselves. These guys are just too good to pass on, whether we draft or trade for them. Sure [...]
Tom Collins posts 10 things that he's learned about fantasy hockey over the years... There are no hard and fast rules when it comes to fantasy hockey. What works well in one league might bomb in another. But there are some lessons you learn along the way that can help you in all your leagues. [...]
Collins runs down his Top 10 fantasy hockey stories of the 2015-16 NHL campaign The start of the NHL playoffs is almost like Jan. 1 for hockey pool enthusiasts. It's a chance to gear up for a new year while taking stock of last season. Looking back at the past seven months, many of the [...]
Collins puts together his Top 10 sleeper picks for the 2016 NHL playoffs. One of the best things about playoff hockey is that it gives many of us a chance at fantasy hockey redemption. Quite a few of us were out of the fantasy playoffs quite a while ago. Whether we were rebuilding, had bad [...]
Top 10 players who disappointed us in fantasy hockey this season... It seems as if this campaign had more disappointments than usual. Maybe it just seems this way. All I know is that if it wasn't for Sidney Crosby's second half, I could have just looked at last year's first-round drafts in many pools [...]
The Top 10 #FantasyHockey surprises of 2015-16 (AKA 'Haunted by a Ghost') This has been a bit of a weird NHL season when it comes to players completely surprising everyone. There's no Nick Foligno-type player that hit 70 points for the first time. There's no Devan Dubnyk-type goalie coming out of nowhere to become [...]
