Tag Archive | "Alex Ovechkin"
The Fantasy Hockey All-Star Draft
The All-Star game is this weekend meaning Daily Faceoff won’t be entirely relevant for the next couple of days. However, DF Editor-in-Chief Alexander Monaghan and ‘Fantasy or Fiction’ columnist Dan Berlin decided to have some fun with the festivities and select the Fantasy Hockey All Stars. Here are the rules: 4 C 4 RW 4 [...]
Continue reading...Alex Ovechkin Suspended Three Games for Charging
Monday, January 23, 2012
4 This evening, the NHL suspended Washington Capitals superstar Alex Ovechkin for three games following his hit on Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Zbynek Michalek. He will be ineligible to play until Saturday, February 4th. Ovechkin, as explained in the video, is a repeat offender who was guilty of launching his body into Michalek’s head. His absence [...]
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Line Change on the Fly: The Invaluable Daniel Sedin
Thursday, December 8, 2011
‘Line Change on the Fly’ is the feature where we re-rank our current player rankings. This edition ranks left wings and their counterparts for the first time since the preseason. Feel free to go nuts in the comments. Good morning, fantasy hockey gamers. For the last couple of weeks we’ve heard clamoring over our current rankings. [...]
Continue reading...Fantasy Hockey Spin on Coaching Changes, Stars
Monday, November 28, 2011
Dale Hunter Hired, Bruce Boudreau Fired At approximately 8:17 AM, a press release from Sergey Kocharov hit our inbox, announcing the Washington Capitals hired Dale Hunter as their head coach. The former legend and icon in the Nation’s capitol, Hunter left the London Knights for a prestigious job on his former club. As my colleague [...]
Continue reading...Fantasy or Fiction: Do They Finish With 30 Goals?
Friday, November 18, 2011
After an inspiring column this week from our esteemed Editor-in-chief, Alexander Monaghan, entitled “Do They Finish With 50 Goals?”, I decided to take a closer look at some of the great underachieving performances from 2011-12 , to ask the question: will a number of the league’s perennial goal scorers be able to shake off their [...]
Continue reading...Top 10 Most Productive Fantasy Hockey Lines
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
By Alexander Monaghan Editor-in-chief Less than a month ago we discussed the most dominant lines in hockey. Just two weeks in, it was hard to determine what worked and what didn’t. Eighty two percent of voters liked either the Anaheim Ducks or the Vancouver Canucks but thus far one of these things is not like [...]
Continue reading...Fantasy or Fiction: Will Boudreau’s Benching Spark Ovechkin?
Thursday, November 3, 2011
I was sitting on my couch last night, taking in the final few minutes of the Anaheim Ducks and Washington Capitals game Tuesday night, when all hell broke lose. Not the typical kind you’re thinking, with fighting majors and misconducts being dolled out in double figures of a game whose result is no longer in [...]
Continue reading...Saturday Discussion: Most Dominant Line in Hockey
Saturday, October 15, 2011
The 2011-2012 NHL season is just kicking off but there are already some trends worth watching. Right now we all our trying to justify our first round picks with the hopes that they all get going and spare us a season of scrambling to the waiver wire. Let’s take a look at the current most [...]
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
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