Fantasy Hockey Top 10

No matter how much you plan, who you draft, or who you trade for, at some point in the season, your players will go through cold streaks.  If it's a streaming player that you only picked up during a hot streak, you drop them as soon as they have two or three pointless games. For [...]

All too often, the focus in fantasy hockey is on the big-name players. But it's often the lesser-known players that can give your team that extra little boost in your quest for a championship. You don't need to be a fantasy hockey genius to recognize top players having a good year; all you need to [...]

As much reading, researching and studying a fantasy general manager may conduct into potential breakouts, a player's success can often come down to one word: Opportunity.  A player with the chance to play in a top-six role or on the top power-play unit will generally be more successful than those who don't get the same [...]

One of the biggest traps newer fantasy general managers fall into is to not take advantage of the waiver wire.  I'm in one roto league where the GM in last place has only used two moves all season. It's almost like he's allergic to the waiver wire. While I wouldn't recommend this GM drop struggling [...]

With a few exceptions, zero is not a number you want to see in fantasy hockey. Aside from a shutout from your starting netminder, seeing a zero pretty much means that your players are not performing.  Maybe you're accepting of a few zeros if it's just one game. Maybe you're tolerant if it's a week [...]

It's no secret that netminders can make or break your fantasy season. Last year, for example, using later-round picks on Linus Ullmark, Jeremy Swayman and Vitek Vanecek probably won plenty of championships. Meanwhile, using high selections on Jacob Markstrom, Jack Campbell and Sergei Bobrovsky probably sunk a lot of championship hopes. Of course, league size, [...]

One of the strategies many fantasy general managers implement at the start of the season is to choose a cut-off date before deciding when to drop underperforming players.  Some GMs choose 10 games, others like to wait until the 20-game mark before giving up on a player. Note that we're not talking about those couple [...]

Even though we're still early in the season, there are multiple fantasy general managers who are panicking over their fantasy squad's slow start. Ideally, you want to be a little patient at the start of the season. Some players are still rusty from an off-season injury, or there's a new coach, new teammates or a [...]

The NHL season is less than a week old, but that won't stop fantasy general managers from jumping to conclusions, ready to drop studs off to a slow start for hot third- and fourth-line players. If you're one of these GMs, a bit of advice: If you're going to make a knee-jerk reaction, you can [...]

The NHL season starts Tuesday, which means on Wednesday, we'll start to see fantasy general managers either start to panic or be overly optimistic based on the first day of action.  Over the last few weeks, this top 10 column has also focused on optimism. We've looked at players who could score 50 goals for [...]