Tag Archive | "Eric Staal"
The Obligatory Fantasy Hockey Airing of Grievances
Back on Thursday, December 18th, 1997, during the annual holiday episode of Seinfeld a new holiday — Festivus — was born. To fully explain the origins, we give the floor to Frank Costanza, played by the great Jerry Stiller all those years ago . Frank Costanza: Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for [...]
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 [...]
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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...Don’t Worry Too Much About Eric Staal
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Statistics are up to date as of games played on November 8th, 2011. All statistics mentioned are at 5 on 5 unless otherwise specified, and are from the wonderful website behindthenet.ca. I’m not going to sugarcoat it folks. From a fantasy perspective, Eric Staal has been nothing short of awful this season. The numbers speak for [...]
Continue reading...The Cycle: Bryzgalov’s Terrible; Panthers in Playoffs?
Friday, October 28, 2011
The cycle spans the internet for intelligent, well-thought out articles which either help your fantasy team or will give you some better incite on your favorite team. If you feel we should add your link, feel free to contact us at contact at dailyfaceoff dot com or on twitter @DailyFaceoff. After 220 games in the [...]
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Power Players: Powerplay Ice-time Leaders
Friday, November 26, 2010
Knowing which players are consistently seeing time on their teams powerplay units is extremely beneficial to your fantasy hockey team, especially if your league counts powerplay points, a common stat in most league formats. Of course you can always browse through the our team lineups at DailyFaceoff, but we’ve decided to take it one step [...]
Continue reading...Nightly Scrap: Big night for big centers
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Jonathan Toews and the Chicago Blackhawks finally beat the Edmonton Oilers the way they know they could, via blowout. Toews would score three followed by Patrick Sharp and Bryan Bickell en route to a 5-0 win over the Oilers. In addition, Marty Turco shutout the opposition and got his first as a Blackhawk while Nikolai [...]
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Friday, December 23, 2011
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