The Wild West

Back by popular demand, for the next four weeks we’ll run through a series of columns that will highlight players who are earmarked for success, based on a few selected criteria, along with those who should be on your list as a potential sell-high candidate. We’ll begin this series by examining the two top goalies from each of the 15 Western Conference teams.

Similar to the last couple of weeks, I’ll walk you through the Western Conference to see what’s been happening and catch you up with the latest trends plus this week’s hot pickups/must drops.

We’re now into the third week of the NHL season, a lot has been happening. Similar to last week, I’ll walk you through the Western Conference to see what’s been happening and catch you up with the latest trends plus this week’s hot pickups/cold starters.

We’re now into the second week of the NHL season and a lot has been happening. Similar to last week, I’ll walk you through the Western Conference to see what’s been happening and catch you up with the latest trends, plus this week’s hot pickups/cold starters.

The start of the 2009-2010 NHL season is well and truly underway. There were certainly plenty of surprises, as well as plenty of hair-pulling mistakes. The main thing that you need to keep reminding yourself is that it’s only six days into the new season, and not to panic too much, there’s still plenty of time left in the season, before you call a fire-sale. Similar to last season I’ll provide you with weekly updates, so that you have access to the latest news that’s been happening from the Western Conference front.

This weekend I participated in 10 Yahoo Mock Drafts to gain a better grasp of what’s been going on in fantasy hockey drafts and thought that I’d pass my findings onto you Dobberities. I participated in random drafts ranging from eight to 14 teams from H2H to Roto leagues with standard settings. This is what I found.

It’s not hard to judge a player’s fantasy value based on an overall yearly performance, but if you break it down further while taking advantage of trends it might just give you enough of an edge to push you over the top at the end of the season. This week we’ll take a look at eight hot starters that you may be able to take advantage of early on in this upcoming season.

It’s not hard to predict that the first overall pick will be successful at the NHL level and really make a difference in fantasy pools, but many poolies probably didn’t know that historically speaking the average 24^th overall pick has quite a bit of fantasy impact as well. This week we’ll delve a little deeper to see what happened/could be in store for all of the recent 24^th overall picks with a specific focus on one special individual from the Western Conference.