For your listening pleasure - put it on your Ipod or just listen in on your computer on the 25th of every month. Let's talk some fantasy hockey! Walker discusses some potential fantasy stars at the World U18s with DobberHockey's Matt Bugg, as well as the fantasy potential of this year's 10 Hobey Baker finalists, Vancouver's [...]
I thoroughly enjoyed putting together the 2007-2008 Prime Cuts squad. To make the team, a player must show something beyond the stat sheet. Similar to TSN broadcaster Pierre McGuire's annual “Monsters Team,” the Prime Cuts squad is chalk-full of intangibles such as heart, determination, hockey IQ, two-way play, grit, and clutch scoring ability. Most of the players on this squad are also under appreciated (in both fantasy and real hockey circles). There are obviously some big stars on this team – the usual suspects – but there are also some under-the-radar players who you may not have noticed this season for whatever reason. (How's that for a rhyme?) Starting today, a section of the team will be released to DobberHockey every few days until the regular season wraps up, when the full roster will be completed.
Another look at some hot and cold players in the Western Conference...
The NCAA championship brackets were determined over the weekend and with the tourney beginning this Friday in Bridgeport and Minneapolis, allow me to shed some light on the goalies being displayed in this year’s Frozen Four. There are a number of big-time goalies preparing for the battle that leads to Washington, D.C. and some of them have legitimate NHL prospect value.
Sleeper Picks for 2009-2010 – Part 1
Sleeper Picks for 2009-2010 – Part 2
Here are five more players to keep an eye on for next season...
Une des équipes des plus énigmatiques et frustrantes de la LNH dans l’esprit des poolers est les Blue Jackets de Columbus. Énigmatique car elle a une tonne de talent dans son système et vous ne pouvez pas prévoir comment les choses vont se développer pour eux. Frustrante à cause qu’ils prônent un système défensif, de même qu’un traitement discutable de leurs jeunes vedettes.
Nul ne sait si le traitement est adéquat. Mais d’un point de vue de pooler, c’est frustrant et énigmatique.
(cliquez ici pour la version française)
One of the most confusing and frustrating NHL teams in the minds of fantasy owners is the Columbus Blue Jackets. Confusing, because they have a pile of talent in the system and you aren’t exactly certain how things will shake out for them. Frustrating because a defensive system, as well as historically questionable treatment of the young guns.
Not to say the treatment is right or wrong. But from a fantasy standpoint, it is frustrating and confusing.
The playoffs have started in the CHL, but that doesn't mean the hockey season is over for those who didn't make the cut. The World U18s start April 9th in Fargo, Minnesota. Find out who's a lock for Team Canada, and who might join them pending a first-round loss.
The big movers on the Top 200 prospects list this month include an undrafted Newfoundlander, a western boy whose twin sister might be a better athlete, and a speedy Swede who is not much bigger than Zdeno Chara's stick.
So much for making up ground last week! Despite my best efforts, and a few games not ending soon enough and one game in particular ending a couple minutes early, I find myself licking my paws going 6-7 last week, while Thunder victorious again picked eight winners, including her first tie of the year between the Caps and Canes. Seriously, Maggie the monkey, you’d better watchout. Thunder’s .553 winning percentage would have her ranked seventh place in the Western Conference right now ahead of the Edmonton Oilers, and just behind Columbus. My winning percentage, well, let’s not go there right now… light schedule for a Saturday night with only eight matchups so let’s get to it:
