The fantasy hockey draft season is upon us, and Michael Clifford has been tracking ADPs of certain players. This is how situations have been shaking out.
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A key to drafting is knowing your settings, knowing your league, and knowing the public perception on a player.
Fantasy Hockey: ADP Report, September 17 Read More »
Part of the research process for any fantasy league is keeping track of ADP reports throughout the preseason. Who the is rising, who is falling and how players are being drafted relative to each other are all important pieces of information that can help us shape our draft strategy. Very recently, Yahoo! opened its Fantasy
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Carey Price was the last goaltender chosen in the top five in an NHL Entry Draft, back in 2005. He’s put up a couple of solid NHL seasons—he posted a .920 save percentage and a 2.56 GAA in his rookie year and was one of the top goalies of the 2010-2011 season, tying the league-lead
Fantasy Hockey: Carey Price Elite, But His Penalty Killers May Not Be Read More »
A few weeks ago, I wrote about two goalies that I will be avoiding at all costs this year. The biggest reason is I don’t think they are very good, but the secondary reason being that I just don’t trust them. With goaltending being such an integral part of your fantasy hockey success, you don’t
Fantasy Hockey: First-Time Full-Time Goalies Read More »
The excitement that surrounds rookie players in any fantasy sport is kind of surreal. The hope is always that “this guy will be the guy that explodes” and somehow you end up with a Top-10 player with a waiver wire pick-up or late-round pick. I have written about this before in passing and will get in
Fantasy Hockey: Second-Year Players Are Talented But Risky Read More »
Finding value in fantasy hockey isn’t so easy. You won’t get many guys coming out of nowhere to put up huge seasons like you’ll see in other sports. Keep this in mind: Since the 2004-2005 lockout, there have been eight rookies to come into the league and average at least 0.73 points/game (which would be a 60-point pace in a full season) and played at least 70 games. These names are Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin, Evgeni Malkin, Paul Stastny, Patrick Kane, Nicklas Backstrom, Jeff Skinner and Anze Kopitar. When you are talking about the last five seasons alone, that list of eight is cut down to Skinner alone.
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The future of the New Jersey Devils hangs in a state of limbo as of today with reports coming out from Forbes magazine that Devils owner Jeff Vanderbeek had missed his first payment on a restructured bank loan, essentially setting the wheels in motion for the proud NHL franchise to file for bankruptcy. The Forbes
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