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Fantasy hockey rankings: Why you should be optimistic about Carter Hart
How individual goalies perform against the high-danger chances tends to fluctuate from season to season, but one thing we can look at with a smaller sample size is how many of these high-danger shots they are being subjected to. Fun. Free. Easy. Create or join a league and play ESPN Fantasy Hockey! Sign up for […]
Continue readingFantasy hockey rankings: The Erik Karlsson renaissance
The easier part of the equation is definitely identifying early movers and shakers whom you would like to add to your roster. But there are more early successes than there are obvious failures. Five or six games is not enough to cut bait on a potentially elite player. The trick is working the fringes. While […]
Continue readingFantasy hockey rankings update: Kucherov, Pacioretty, Stone injury impact
Chief among them, concerns that Nikita Kucherov may be down for a while after suffering an injury on Saturday. In you remember, he famously missed the last fantasy season after hip surgery, returning in time for the postseason. Fun. Free. Easy. Create or join a league and play ESPN Fantasy Hockey! Sign up for free! […]
Continue readingFantasy hockey waiver watch: Options to replace Nikita Kucherov
Fun. Free. Easy. Create or join a league and play ESPN Fantasy Hockey! Sign up for free! With potentially significant and unfortunate news coming out of Tampa Bay on Monday, we’ll buck convention and begin with focussing on the possible loss of an A-plus fantasy performer. Nikita Kucherov, Tampa Bay Lightning (99.9%): If it truly […]
Continue readingFantasy hockey: Forecaster for the week of Oct. 18 to Oct. 24
Fun. Free. Easy. Create or join a league and play ESPN Fantasy Hockey! Sign up for free! Vasilevskiy will be fine and Forsberg isn’t going to be a world beater. Just like Carter Hutton won’t be letting in eight goals per game for the Arizona Coyotes … Actually, wait, that one is possible. But, for […]
Continue readingFantasy hockey: Power play opportunities to watch
The leader for the past three seasons for shorthanded points is Brad Marchand with 17 of them. Sebastian Aho is next with 13, Patrice Bergeron has 12 and Mika Zibanejad has 11. That information doesn’t help you for fantasy. Not only are the bonus points relatively inconsequential for the league leaders, but you may also […]
Continue readingPhiladelphia Flyers center Kevin Hayes undergoes abdominal surgery, expected to miss six to eight weeks
Flyers coach Alain Vigneault said Hayes was skating with his teammates Monday at the team complex in Voorhees, New Jersey, when he “felt something in his groin.” Hayes had surgery and could miss roughly the first 10 games of the season. The Flyers are set to open training camp this week. The preseason starts next […]
Continue readingAfter leading Philadelphia Flyers in goals, Joel Farabee lands six-year, $30 million extension
Farabee, 21, led the Flyers with 20 goals last season while also chipping in 18 assists in 55 games. He is set to make $925,000 in the 2021-22 season, with his extension taking effect the following season and running through 2027-28. Farabee has 28 goals and 31 assists in 107 career games after being selected […]
Continue readingPhiladelphia Flyers sign center Sean Couturier to 8-year, $62 million extension
Couturier counts $7.75 million against the salary cap with his contract that begins after next season and runs through 2029-30. It’s the same value as the contract Andrei Svechnikov agreed to with the Carolina Hurricanes earlier Thursday. “As one of the premier two-way centers in the NHL, Sean has the rare talent to shut down […]
Continue readingTop 300 ESPN fantasy hockey draft 2021-22 rankings
We weren’t kidding about that, by the way, as the 2021-22 NHL season features the debut of the NHL’s 32nd franchise, the Seattle Kraken. Whether you’re a seasoned drafting pro, putting together a league with your buddies, or trying it out for the first time, you can find our fantasy hockey draft rankings below. These […]
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