Chicago Blackhawks GM Stan Bowman gave his netminders, and his coach, a vote of confidence on Monday, claiming that his starting goalies — Ray Emery and Corey Crawford — are not the problem. Crawford has started only two games in the month of February, allowing 10 goals in those contests while Emery has allowed at [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 31, 2011
Welcome to this week’s edition of Crashing the Net. For this fourth week of the season we’re going to take a look at each position and some of the players you might want to add to your roster. We hope you will be able to utilize this article in order to gain a competitive advantage over [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, October 22, 2011
Specifically John Tavares, PA Parenteau and Matt Moulson. While anyone can tell you that Parenteau isn’t going to record 115 points as his current pace suggests, and Tavares probably isn’t going to bulge the twine 82 times, there is a number that helps explain why these three players have been so successful this year. Unfortunately [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Columbus Blue Jackets backup Mathieu Garon won his third game of the season with a 3-0 shutout against his former team, the Montreal Canadiens. Although he has played five less games than starting goalie Steve Mason, he only has one less win than the former Calder Trophy winner. In addition to receiving good goaltending, the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 17, 2010
Offensive Corps: Despite replacing defensive-minded coach Jacques Lemaire with Todd Richards, the Wild scored their least amount of goals since the lockout–with their 219 markers topping only Edmonton, Columbus and Calgary in the West. As such, there are not many players who provided fantasy value. Mikko Koivu had his second straight good season, recording 71 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Good evening from the State of Hockey. My name is Tony Caswell and I am a recent addition to the DailyFaceoff writing staff. Born and raised in Minny with countless mediocre seasons of youth, high school, and now men’s league hockey to my credit. For those of you not familiar with my career, I currently [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Fantasizing is a post looking to uncover some excellent potential buy-low options, free agent pickups and some other trends that can help your fantasy team.
Continue reading...Thursday, October 15, 2009
So week 1 of the long and arduous fantasy hockey season is in the books. What do we take away from it? If you’re team hasn’t performed up to par, is it time to hit the panic button and start from scratch? Or is it time to sell players high while they are hot? Obviously [...]
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