Fantasy Hockey Top 10

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 [...]

One of my favorite things to do each preseason is to try to figure out which players have a shot of reaching 70 points for the first time in their careers.  Some of these players may be obvious choices, some may be sleepers and some may be complete long shots, but in points-only leagues, finding [...]

Each preseason, one of my favorite columns to write tries to point out potential first-time 70-point players. Last year saw eight defensemen reach the 70-point mark. It could have potentially been 10 players to reach that plateau, however, injuries to Cale Makar and Roman Josi put a stop to that. The last time we experienced [...]

Scoring 50 goals is a tough benchmark to hit, but we've been seeing it more in the past couple of years.  The last two seasons have seen nine 50-goal seasons, with Leon Draisaitl as the only player to hit the mark twice. The last time we had this many 50-goal scorers within a two-season timeframe [...]

As the popular expression goes, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. All too often, fantasy general managers can be found to be the fools, trusting players to bounce back to heights that are normally too high to begin with. We have seen this with Mathew Barzal for the past [...]