Hello everybody, hopefully everyone has enjoyed the holiday season, albeit without much NHL hockey to speak of lately. Since the season is on pause, I figured it would be a decent time to look back and reflect on some good and bad things from this fantasy hockey season. What players have exceeded our expectations or [...]
Merry Christmas! I know this hasn’t been the most ideal holiday season, but hopefully you were able to enjoy something this year. Even without NHL action for at least another couple days, at least we can dive into the World Juniors today. Here are today’s games that you can watch or at least follow. Finland [...]
Happy Holidays and welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. This week, we’ll be considering an interesting aspect of U20 tournaments like the World Juniors: every year, certain players see massive bumps in fantasy value that can be [...]
Midseason Guide will be out January 14. In my Ramblings I had been saying “15” but that’s wrong. It’s the Friday, not the Saturday, that this will be out. So January 14 – 18 days! This Guide comes with your Ultimate Fantasy Pack or Gold/Platinum subscriptions. It does not come with the Keeper League Fantasy [...]
The Immediate Fix (Grab this guy and use him for the next several days)Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, G, Buffalo Sabres (Available in 96% of ESPN leagues, 63% Fantrax, 80% Yahoo) – The goalie landscape in fantasy is difficult to navigate, there are only a few netminders in the league that get consistent starts without sharing the workload. [...]
Given the (now extended) break this week there isn’t really a need to touch on streaking players or deployment changes so we are going to take this opportunity and look at how things have changed over the year to date. Last week we reviewed big deployment changes, but this week it is all about production [...]
Well, we’re here. It is Christmas Eve for those who celebrate, and the NHL is officially on its pause. (I suppose it depends on what team you’re playing for, because your break may have started days ago.) Regardless, the NHL’s official break is the 24th through the 26th, so that gives us a few days [...]
Welcome back for part two. You can read part one of my Christmas wish-list for buyers and sellers article here. And, Yikes! What a week it has been. I wish I were referring to a couple wild and crazy trades or huge signings but I’m not. More games have been cancelled then played the past [...]
Over my last few Ramblings, I have been taking the time to talk about some to-date season stats, focusing on both forwards and defencemen. While most of my analysis for fantasy hockey is via public data sites like ours at Frozen Tools, Natural Stat Trick, or elsewhere, there are other non-public resources that can be [...]
Here are the Top 100 goaltenders to own in your points-only dynasty leagues - December edition! Click any name to be taken to his fantasy hockey profile. Announcement: The 14th annual Midseason Fantasy Hockey Guide will be available for download on January 14. Click here to pre-order! Below are the first three tiers. I posted [...]
