Fantasy Hockey Top 10

Your fantasy hockey team is the same as an NHL team. While you need your elite players to perform, it’s your late-round draft picks that will win you the championship. There are players you can draft in the later rounds that produce better than a third-round pick. Trading for a player because you have a [...]

It’s always frustrating when you look back at a season and you think you could have been a contender if it wasn’t for your players all getting injured. We’ve all been there. Even if you shy away from Band-Aid boys, there’s always a chance that your guys spend more time on the IR than Kris [...]

Now that the regular season is mostly over, it’s time for fantasy general managers to take stock of the season and ask themselves: “Where did I go wrong?” In one-year pools, it most likely fell apart at the draft before the season even began. For those in keeper pools, maybe you overpaid for a few [...]

Now that most of the regular season has concluded and your hockey leagues have wrapped up, you’re probably already thinking ahead to your playoff hockey pool. Pretty much every race is determined, and with a couple of exceptions, most of the playoff matches are set. The first few rounds of a playoff draft are often [...]

“It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.” This quote comes from German composer and double bassist Eberhard Weber. I’m pretty sure he was referring to playing music, but he very well could have been talking about rostering players in fantasy hockey. All [...]

We’ve all been there, screaming at the TV, wondering why the head coach won’t give that young player on your fantasy roster more icetime. It sometimes feels as NHL coaches won’t mess with their lineup, like they would rather not change a power-play that ranks 23rd in the league rather than give a couple of [...]

One thing that can frustrate fantasy hockey general managers is when a player doesn’t produce on the power play. Most leagues count power-play points as a category. Even in a points-only league, having success with the man advantage can mean the difference between a 60-point player and a 40-point player. However, not all power-play points [...]

Monday is not only the trade deadline for the NHL, but many fantasy leagues are in the same boat and will have their trade deadlines either today or later this week. Many hockey pools mimic the NHL in this way, and savvy fantasy general managers will use this day to bolster their lineup or sell [...]

After last week’s column on the top 10 overhyped players under the age of 25, a reader on Twitter suggested a column on underhyped players. That made me think about what players are the most underhyped. Fantasy general managers tend to yearn for younger players over veterans. It’s the shiny new toy syndrome. So logically, [...]

By Tom Collins One of the more difficult things for any fantasy general manager is to try to sort through the publicity and figure out which players are overhyped. This is important as it prevents you from overpaying or overdrafting players who won’t be able to meet expectations. It’s also great if you already own [...]