Fantasy Hockey Top 10

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 [...]

Now that we’ve passed the halfway point of the season, this would be the time of the year when the NHL would be holding its all-star game. If you were to do a fantasy all-star squad, you know all the top players would be there: Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, Andrei Vasilevskiy, Auston Matthews, Patrick Kane, [...]

While scouring the waiver wire, fantasy general managers will usually look at recent success, but that won’t necessarily give you all the information you need to be successful. Generally speaking, you want to find players that, all of a sudden, find themselves in an excellent opportunity to succeed. This might mean fourth-line players getting top-six [...]

It’s a decision every fantasy general manager faces throughout a season: When do you run out of patience and sit a player who is on a cold streak? It’s easy when you’re dealing with an elite player. No matter what type of cold streak they might suffer through, you’re going to keep them in the lineup. It’s [...]