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Fantasy hockey’s most consistent players: Midseason edition
The rest-of-season fantasy hockey rankings are available every Monday here on ESPN.com, but there is more you can glean from this season when digging a bit deeper — especially for the most popular format of head-to-head points. We do an offseason piece here looking at consistency by comparing the weekly output of each player over […]
Continue readingNHL Power Rankings: 1-32 poll, one word describing each team
It might be tough to sum up the first two months of the 2022-23 NHL season in just one word per team, but along with this week’s Power Rankings, we’ve attempted to do just that. How we rank: A panel of ESPN hockey commentators, analysts, reporters and editors rates teams against one another — taking […]
Continue readingThursday fantasy hockey tips: NHL picks, matchups, more
This five-game slate, light for a Thursday, has some more solid defensive teams on tap. The Nashville Predators at the Tampa Bay Lightning, in particular, is two teams good at preventing. Overall, eight of the 10 likely starting goaltenders have positive results for the goals saved above expected statistic. But with a light slate, you […]
Continue readingTuesday fantasy hockey tips: NHL picks, matchups, more
A little later, bench boss Paul Maurice visits his former club for the first time as Florida’s coach, and Stars stellar forward Jason Robertson endeavors to extend his point-streak to 19 games when sibling Nicholas and the Maple Leafs visit. Remember, the younger Robertson – a part-timer in Toronto thus far this season – scored […]
Continue readingKaplan: Jason Robertson’s superstar rise, trade targets and other rumblings around NHL
Welcome to December in the NHL, where parity reigns more than ever and no lead is safe. And while I’ve heard plenty of theories on why — defense taking a backseat, special teams mattering more, a rash of injuries, the rebuilding teams improving faster than expected — do we really care to figure out why? […]
Continue readingFantasy hockey rankings: Can these disappointing starters turn it around?
Injuries don’t count, so Zach Werenski and Josh Norris get a pass. Rookies don’t count either, so we aren’t bothering with Marco Rossi and Shane Wright. This is about established NHLers with a reliable baseline coming well short of expectations. They are arranged by how much they are missing the preseason projections I assigned to […]
Continue readingRoope Hintz signs 8-Year, $67.6M extension with Dallas Stars
Hintz, 26, is in his fifth NHL season. He has 194 points in 261 career games, including 88 goals. He has 24 points in 22 games this season playing with forwards Jason Robertson and Joe Pavelski, one of the most productive lines in the NHL. Hintz broke out playing with those teammates last season, scoring […]
Continue readingWhat expected goals can tell us about the best lines in fantasy hockey
The slight variation on individual expected goals is evident when you surf through some of the more popular advanced metric websites. MoneyPuck.com has Auston Matthews tops in the league for expected goals, while EvolvingHockey.com lists Timo Meier at the top and NaturalStatTrick.com says its Zach Hyman. So there is variation there in how they run […]
Continue readingFantasy hockey rankings: Why these two Coyotes can keep scoring
Jakob Chychrun and Nick Schmaltz returned to the lineup for the Arizona Coyotes for the first time this season (basically, as Schmaltz was hurt two minutes into the opener and Chychrun hadn’t yet played in 2022-23). In four games since then, the upstart Coyotes have earned four of a possible eight points (great by their […]
Continue readingFriday fantasy hockey tips: NHL picks, matchups, more
Adding to the fun, every single one of Friday’s 13 contests – six of which are inter-conference – are being hosted in the states. Essentially adding to the holiday feel of each and every contest. Again, fun! If engaging in Daily Fantasy competition, my advice is to wander way off script with a couple of […]
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