Daily Fantasy (DFS) Advice

2025-26 This IS fantasy hockey, right? Since most of the people who’ll read a DFS article play in at least one keeper or dynasty league, indulge me in looking forward. In two seasons, the aging process will have claimed fantasy relevance from Sidney Crosby, Alexander Ovechkin (tho he’ll stick around to break the goal-scoring record), [...]

Hottest team in hockey Quietly, as no one noticed until this week, the Nashville Predators have compiled a 14-0-2 record since February 17.  Today, they have the pleasure to entertain Dylan Larkin and the Detroit Red Wings at 5 pm ET, thus missing my lineup of 7 pm or later.  BUT if somebody wanted some [...]

Happy St. Patrick’s weekend!  And for fantasy hockey players, we are down to the last week, or maybe the last two days of your league before playoffs begin for about half of us. We start looking at specific opponents, hoping we get two more points than the next guy, or maybe one more category. At [...]

The trade deadline. Yes, this year’s deadline was yesterday. Wow. But let’s look at an equally chaotic trade season from 2022-23, and see whether those gotta-do-it deals are worth it. The Vegas Golden Knights would be a great place to start - on February 26, they acquired Ivan Barbashev in a one-for-one deal that sent [...]

Lightning in a bottle If you are reading this column, you play fantasy hockey. What you’re looking for is that magical hot streak that you can grab on the free agent market. Sure, they’re not worth Connor McDavid or Connor Bedard, but maybe a Connor McMichael?  Through mid-to-late February, the Capitals’ third-line center had five [...]

Tonight’s matchups What a wonderful collection of games to occur at 7 or 8 PM!  Dallas at Carolina, Boston at Vancouver, and Toronto at Colorado. It will be hard to choose one, and I suspect many of us will be flipping channels. Of these, my recommendation will be to pass on the Stars/Canes contest.  Dallas [...]

Straight to the DFS this weekend - again, there are plenty of earlier options to fill my platter of prop bets, but for a DraftKings lineup I’ll focus on the six matchups that drop the pucks at 7 pm Eastern or later.  Anchors away! Columbus Blue Jackets @ San Jose Sharks.  No, these teams don’t [...]

A little extra time on my hands over the All-Star break and with this week's slow start, this is probably a dangerous thing for a part-time hockey writer. I’ve taken to look at one of my favorite topics: fantasy defensemen. Dobber came out with his monthly ranking of keeper/dynasty D-men. I’d point out that his [...]

Matthew Tkachuk is pretty good these days.  I remember writing about his shot percentage when he had five goals on 119 shots on net, or 4.2%.  That wasn’t sustainable, and my prediction was that the Panthers would become a scary team when - not if - the correction happened. Yeah. Since the calendar rolled over [...]

All-star observations Since being named to the 2024 NHL All-star “event” in Toronto, how are some of the guys doing?  Alexandar Georgiev, 0-2, 4 goals surrendered in each start, save percentage of .875.  Not that his save percentage was stellar before his selection - under .900 for the season, Georgiev leads the league in wins [...]