Fantasy Hockey Top 10

  This season's Top 10 power-play disappointments...   The difference between great and good fantasy players often comes down to power play production. Many leagues use power play points as a category. Even those leagues that don’t use it, savvy GMs keep track of how players are utilized with the man advantage. A player who [...]

Top 10 goalie storylines   Your fantasy season lives and dies with your goaltending. You can have the best squad in the world but if your two netminders are below-average, it doesn’t matter how many points Connor McDavid gets for you. This year has seen plenty of surprises when it comes to the nets. Elite [...]

Top 10 surprises of the first half, and can they keep it up?   The halfway point of the season is always a good time to take a second to contemplate on what we’ve witnessed so far this season. Most of it is routine. But there are always surprises. This year has been chock full [...]

  The Top 10 surprising players of 2016   The dawn of 2017 gives us a good chance to reflect on the fantasy breakthroughs that 2016 brought us. The Frozen Pool feature found on this site has a great tool where you can sort by custom dates. Looking at the full 2016 year (Jan. 1 [...]

The Top 10 'buy-low' players in fantasy hockey today   Last week we looked at the top 10 sell-high players. Now it’s time to flip it around and look at the top 10 buy low. The trick for buying low is all in the timing. It’s too late for some players. Mark Stone is a [...]

The Top 10 players you should "sell high" on. These players are overvalued right now...   Sell high. Buy low. It sounds so simple. But it’s always tough to trade away players when they are playing so well. We convince ourselves that this unprecedented hot streak can last for the whole year. But it usually [...]

Top 10 defensemen for the physical categories - hits, blocked shots and PIM...   A lot of big-name defensemen always seem to get the love when it comes to peripheral stats. But there are plenty of options out there if you desperately need hits, PIM or blocked shots. These guys won’t be confused with Shea [...]

Top 10 interesting numbers so far, early in the 2016-17 NHL campaign   I’ve always been a numbers guy. Things that are strange and different than normal have always interested me. This fascination can help when it comes to fantasy hockey. Knowing which numbers are a sign of things can help you pick up on [...]

The Top 10 players your fantasy squad should cut bait on   One of the more popular type of columns that are written has to do with who you should pick up in your league. But rarely do we look at the other side of it: Who should you drop? Some of the toughest decisions [...]