All fantasy owners need help in the short term AND the long term. The Looking Ahead feature identifies one player to plug into lineups in the short term, a second to invest in for the long term, a third to bench for the coming week, and a fourth who will struggle to meet expectations [...]
Now a couple of weeks into the fantasy hockey regular season, we can assess some scenarios that are unfolding on teams across the league that are not to the liking of specific individual’s owners. The following players are ones we need to be patient with although I deem their current deployments as undesirable. Nobody [...]
Once again, we have a lot of lineup, injury, and signing notes to get through so let’s get right to it. After missing some time in their last game, Will Butcher laced up Thursday night for the Devils. While he admitted to reporters that he was feeling a little sore, it appears it’s not [...]
Welcome to the new readers this season, and to the old ones, welcome back! Last week we went over a few slow starters, so this week we’re going to flip it around and take a look at some players getting off to hot starts. As was the case in the Capped article from two [...]
There was a lot of injury and lineup information that came out Wednesday so let's not waste any time getting to it. Brady Tkachuk is going to be out of Ottawa’s lineup for about a month with a leg injury. It was suffered on this hit, apparently: Brady Tkachuk goes for a hit [...]
Here are this week’s injury updates from around the league… Jakob Silfverberg – He has been working with a skating coach but hasn’t started skating with the team. Doesn’t seem like he’s close to a return. Ryan Getzlaf – Has been skating for the past four days, so it seems likely he’ll be in the [...]
Healthy Scratches, Hot Goalies, plus more… […]
The fun of a fantasy Sunday night was in full effect. Thanks to a nice Rivalry Week to start the season I needed an assist and PPP to overcome a rather slow start to the season. Ryan Kesler to the rescue! It’s a deep league and Kesler’s faceoff wins are much needed. Now is [...]
In this week’s installment, we take a look at a few lines that have been particularly successful in this young season. Using Dobber’s Line Production Tool, I compiled a list of the highest scoring line for each team at even strength. If a line has crossed the double-digit mark at this point, it’s unlikely [...]
