Fantasy Hockey: Evgeni Malkin, Eric Staal Among Buy-Low Candidates
Guys like Evgeni Malkin and Eric Staal are off to slow starts this year, mainly due to shooting percentage and bad luck.
Fantasy Hockey: Finding Value In Unlucky Defensemen
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.
Are the Pittsburgh Penguins Misusing Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin? Part Two
I’ve posted it many times before but for the newly-initiated, here’s a chart that shows just how predictive Fenwick can be. For this season, there were two teams with at least a 55% Fenwick Close%: the Los Angeles Kings (last year’s Cup winner and 2013 Western Conference Finalist) and the Chicago Blackhawks (the West’s representative […]
Are the Pittsburgh Penguins Misusing Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin?
In just four games, the Boston Bruins handily dispatched of the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Eastern Conference Finals of the 2013 NHL Playoffs. The fact that Boston took the series shouldn’t come as a huge surprise to anyone; despite the star-studded lineup Pittsburgh can roll out including former MVPs Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin and […]