Fantasy Hockey: The Winter Olympics are so close that the anxieties have reached a fever pitch. Injuries and holdouts will affect several teams this week.
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After a stellar top-6 featuring Alex Ovechkin things get murkier for the Russian squad.
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The Capitals have been thrown into the rough Metropolitan division featuring the Penguins, Rangers and Islanders.
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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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This has been quite the week for hockey metrics. On Friday, a very well-known hockey blogger, author and radio personality Sean McIndoe a.k.a. DownGoesBrown posted an article on the basic ins-and-outs of hockey metrics over at Grantland. I strongly recommend reading it even if you have a grasp for hockey metrics as McIndoe has a
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