Fantasy Hockey Top 10

The Arizona Coyotes have signed winger Alex Kerfoot to a two-year deal worth $3.5M AAV. The Coyotes get: a versatile, speedy winger who can chip in on any line and at either wing. He can also be used on either special teams unit. Fantasy Players Impacted: Along with Jason Zucker and Nick Bjugstad, the Coyotes [...]

The next two weeks are the most exciting time for a fantasy hockey fan.  The NHL draft is the chance for many of us to get an idea of the latest prospects and where they will land. Then a few days later, there's the start of NHL free agency day, where teams overpay for older [...]

Unlike past years, this year's crop of unrestricted free agents doesn't have the star power as it normally does. A year ago, we were speculating about potential big-money deals for the likes of Nazem Kadri, John Klingberg, Darcy Kuemper, Jack Campbell, Johnny Gaudreau, Evander Kane and Filip Forsberg. Most of them signed big-money deals and [...]

Each year, the opening of NHL free agency is a crazy day of signings that everyone looks forward to and gets all the media attention. But for my money, it's the restricted free agents that are the most exciting and nerve-wracking to watch for in a cap league. I'm in a dynasty league that has [...]

Savvy fantasy general managers will keep an eye on the playoffs to get a sense of how players are being utilized, whether that's contributing to a production boost, and try to determine if that player can keep up that boost next season. However, for many fantasy GMs, it may be too late to acquire that [...]

One of the biggest mistakes a fantasy general manager can make is believing a player who had a career year will continue that success next season. I was at a poker game with some buddies recently, and one of them was bemoaning the fact that the likes of Nazem Kadri and Chris Kreider were having [...]

With the regular season still fresh in our minds, this is a great opportunity to start using some recent numbers to think about next season. One practical way is to look at players who saw a significant decrease in shooting percentage this past campaign. Why is this so important? A player taking 200 shots that [...]

One of the strange things about the increase in scoring this past season is that the list of disappointing defensemen isn't as plentiful as a list of disappointing forwards. Anyone putting together a list of disappointing forwards should easily come up with 20 players (Calgary alone would probably net half a dozen). But most of [...]

Even though scoring was up to almost 30-year highs, it wasn't all peaches and cream for fantasy general managers. Despite the increase in scoring, there were still plenty of forwards who struggled to put up points. Last week, we focused on the top 10 disappointing netminders. It makes sense that goalies would struggle when scoring [...]

A couple of my top 10 columns over the past few weeks have focused on surprising forwards and defensemen of 2022-23. With scoring up to 3.18 goals per game per team (the highest since 1993-94), it was pretty easy to find some of the most surprising skaters. The most difficult was limiting it to 10 [...]