Hawks Kane more than able
Those of you who wondered if Chicago rookie Patrick Kane would need a couple of years to acclimate himself to the speed and power of the NHL game can rest easy now, you have your answer.
He doesn't.
Early Season Musings
Some random thoughts from the first few weeks of the season...also, the Angus Prime Cut for the past two weeks, something you definitely don't want to miss!
Players of the Western Conference
With the 2007-08 fantasy hockey season underway, I decided to focus two columns (players in the Eastern Conference and players in the Western Conference).
As dobberhockey readers, many of you already know a great deal about point potentials of various players, but for those of you in leagues that include non-standard scoring categories, these columns are right up your alley.
In this second column, let's take a look at some of the guys in the western conference.
Eric Maltais on Sirius Satellite Radio
On Saturday, October 27 the fantasy frog himself - Eric Maltais - was on the Hardcore Fantasy Show on Sirius Satellite Radio. Have a listen on their Podcast!
How the Mighty are Falling
So you’ve been told not to panic (probably by me) about some big-name goaltenders that started off the season in a funk. But now it’s almost a month into the season and a handful of the elite goalies are making even the most confident fantasy hockey managers start to squirm.
The New Thrashers
Atlanta general manager Don Waddell made himself interim coach when he fired Bob Hartley after a 0-6-0 start to the season. Like all coaching changes, this one brought a whole new attitude to the roster. Lines were mixed around, players responded in different ways, and subsequently the fantasy value of some players has changed dramatically.
NCAA Report Card
The Canadian Hockey League has reached the double-digits in games played, but the college ranks are just catching up. Who gets an A+ so far, and who is failing the grade.
NHL Shift Charts For Each Game
Having a website dedicated to fantasy hockey that has grown to be quite large over the past year - well, that certainly has it's benefits.
NHL.com has decided - allegedly under the instruction of the NHL's Board of Governors - to remove their shift charts that were very helpful to poolies, and replace them with TOI charts, which lists the shift length and times, but requires tedious analysis to find out who played with whom. I started an email campaign to get them back, but to no avail. After all, bringing back the shift charts would be fan friendly - and the NHL can't have stuff like that...
Thanks to the resourceful people in the DobberHockey Forum , we have found a source for these charts once again. In fact, it's better than last year.
Statistically Speaking
I thought I’d start off this week with a quote from former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics”.
You can bend and twist statistics to suit almost any argument. With that in mind, let’s take a look at some interesting ones:
The Keenan Factor
Now that we are a few games into the regular season, it is much easier to get a read on what is happening in Calgary and what kind of impact new coach Mike Keenan is having.
In September there were some very key questions being asked by fantasy poolies – now we have some answers.